PEABODY, Mass., - May 23, 2000 - ScanSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSFT) and Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. announced today a licensing agreement to bundle Pagis Pro 3.0 Scanning Suite™ with the new ScanPartner® 3091DC, a versatile, high-volume desktop duplex color scanner. Fujitsu is also licensing ScanSoft's OmniPage Web™ paper-to-web software with the new ScanPartner 620C, an economical, workgroup scanner that offers the industry's highest color scanning speeds. The new OEM relationship is the latest in a series of strategic agreements designed to extend ScanSoft's presence into larger corporate markets. This relationship also allows Fujitsu customers to benefit from ScanSoft's leading digital imaging technology. Unlike most bundled software, which is often light or limited, Pagis Pro 3.0 Scanning Suite and OmniPage Web are full-featured products, offering customers full-functionality.

"Both the ScanPartner 3091DC and 620C deliver true color support and unparalleled image quality, ideal for ScanSoft's document imaging and web publishing applications," said Victor Kan, director of product management, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. "ScanSoft's award-winning Pagis Pro and OmniPage Web enable our users to make the most of their scanner."

"The new Fujitsu ScanPartner workgroup scanners will expose many new corporate customers to ScanSoft digital imaging software," said Wayne Crandall, ScanSoft's senior vice president of sales and business development. "This relationship is another example of ScanSoft's movement into the corporate and departmental markets."

Pagis Pro 3.0 Scanning Suite offers four integrated scanning programs designed to streamline the process of using, sharing and managing information on a PC and the Internet. The suite includes TextBridge® Pro 9.0 and enhanced Pagis® document management software.

TextBridge Pro 9.0 OCR software enables users to quickly turn paper documents into electronic files without retyping. Plus, TextBridge Pro 9.0 retains the layout and formatting of the original document, including color photos. Users can also turn scanned files into formatted web pages.
Pagis turns the Windows Explorer into a visual filing system by creating visual thumbnails for scanned documents, photos, application files and web pages. Digital images are easily integrated with popular desktop applications or shared via e-mail.
Pagis Copier turns a scanner and color printer into a color copier. With the push of a button, Pagis Copier automatically scans and prints a color copy. Pagis Copier provides a familiar copier interface along with many options, such as resizing, reduce to fit, collate and color output.
Pagis Forms Fill-In alleviates the time-consuming task of filling out forms on a typewriter or by hand. With Pagis Forms Fill-In, users simply scan the form and tab and type. The result is a professional-looking form.

OmniPage Web gives Fujitsu customers the ability to build a web site right out of the box. The software quickly and easily converts multi-page paper documents into intelligently structured, hyperlinked web sites. OmniPage Web's Logical Structure Recognition™ (LSR) technology recognizes the outline, hierarchy and structural elements of scanned pages and can then generate full sets of HTML pages. OmniPage Web offers all levels of HTML support from plain text through Dynamic HTML (DHTML). The product also supports Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which the user may elect to use. CSS is an advanced style-based HTML standard that improves speed of loading and ease-of-maintenance for webmasters. OmniPage Web automatically generates a table of contents where each entry is a hyperlink to the appropriate section of the web site. A navigation panel is also generated at the top and/or bottom of each web page, which the user can choose to represent with text links, their own graphics, or icons provided in OmniPage Web.

For additional information about Pagis Pro, OmniPage Web, and ScanSoft's other award-winning digital imaging software, please visit www.scansoft.com. To find out more about Fujitsu, please visit www.fujitsu.com.

About Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.

Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) is a leading provider of comprehensive information technology and network solutions for the global marketplace. Comprising over 500 group companies and affiliates worldwide - including ICL, Amdahl and DMR Consulting Group - the Fujitsu Group had consolidated revenues of 5.24 trillion yen ($43.3 billion) in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1999. With world-class hardware and software technology in computers, telecommunications and microelectronics, and a corps of 55,000 systems and services experts around the world, Fujitsu is uniquely positioned to harness the power of the network to help its customers succeed. Altogether, the Fujitsu Group has 188,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries. Home page: http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/index-e.html.

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited. Benefiting from Fujitsu Ltd.'s $3 billion annual investment in research and development, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. provides innovative solutions for the U.S. marketplace. Current product offerings include high performance hard disk drives, tape drives, magneto-optical drives, high performance scanners and printers. The company of approximately 700 employees encompasses research and development operations in Longmont, Colo.; computer peripheral repair in Hillsboro, Ore.; engineering and marketing in San Jose, Calif.; and sales operations throughout the United States. Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. is based in San Jose, Calif. and is located at 2904 Orchard Parkway, San Jose, Calif. 95134.

About ScanSoft, Inc.

Headquartered in Peabody, MA, ScanSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSFT) is the leading developer of digital imaging software that enables users to leverage the power of their scanners, digital cameras and other electronic devices. ScanSoft's award-winning product line - Paper Converter™, Pagis® Pro, TextBridge® Pro, PaperPort® Deluxe™, OmniPage Pro®, OmniForm®, OmniPage Pro Scan Suite Plus™, ImageAXS™, PageKeeper®, Kai's PhotoSoap2™, Kai's SuperGoo™, Kai's PowerShow™, and PhotoFactory™ - enables users to capture, recognize, edit, manage and share documents and photos electronically by taking advantage of ScanSoft's cutting-edge technology.

ScanSoft has established numerous strategic partnerships with the industry's leading scanner and multifunction vendors to deliver the most comprehensive and cost-effective solutions to its customers. Vendors who have chosen ScanSoft's cutting-edge OCR technologies to incorporate into their own product offerings include Brother, Canon, Epson, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Lotus, Microtek, Mustek, Primax, Sharp, Symantec, Visioneer, Xerox and others. ScanSoft's leading OCR technology was recently licensed by Microsoft for use in future products. ScanSoft continues to cultivate and develop strategic partnerships to deliver the most comprehensive and cost-effective solutions for its customers.

ScanSoft software is sold and marketed worldwide through retail, dealer and OEM channels and the Internet, capturing the consumer, small office/home office (SOHO) and corporate markets. There are approximately 6 million registered users of ScanSoft products. ScanSoft can be found on the web at www.scansoft.com.

The Company notes that the statements in this release that relate to future plans, events, performance, including without limitation the perceived benefits of the agreement, are forward-looking statements subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company's actual results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, various technological and competitive factors such as the introduction and acceptance of rival products, acceptance of the Company's new products, pricing pressures, success of the "bundle and upgrade" business model including the Company's maintaining its relationships with scanner manufacturers along with customers' opting to upgrade to newer or more fully-featured products; and other risk factors listed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports, including but not limited to the report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999.

Paper Converter, Pagis, TextBridge, PaperPort, PaperPort Deluxe, Scanner Suite, OmniPage, OmniForm, OmniForm Internet Publisher, PageKeeper are registered trademarks or trademarks of ScanSoft, Inc. ImageAXS is a trademark of Digital Arts & Sciences Corporation. All other trademarks and trade names are hereby recognized and may be registered to their respective holders.

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