Years of tight budgets have put education in a real crunch. This year more than 75% of academic institutions will face a funding shortfall. Educators, administrators and students must do more with less and reduce organizational reliance on paper, protect sensitive information and provide assistive technologies for the disabled. Nuance's suite of industry-leading desktop applications, toolkits and integrated technologies instantly convert paper into digital information and enable the use of speech to deliver seamless, hands-free interaction with applications, services and devices to help reduce manual processes that slow down organizations to significantly increase productivity and reduce costs.