PEABODY, Mass., September 29, 2004 - ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT), the global leader of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that Corex Technologies, Inc., has integrated ScanSoft® OmniPage® Capture SDK (Software Development Kit) into the newest versions of its CardScan® business scanner products, which scan and upload data from a business card into the appropriate fields of a database without typing. ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK was chosen by Corex to replace a previous OCR (Optical Character Recognition) solution which along with Corex's proprietary interpretive scanning technology results in superior speed, significant improvements in the use of system memory and an increase in accuracy of 21 percent.

Both enterprise and personal users rely on Corex's CardScan family of products to manage their contacts quickly and efficiently, saving time and increasing productivity by reducing the costs and time needed to manually enter contact information into a database. Combining ScanSoft's sophisticated, highly accurate OCR technology with Corex's own proprietary technology, CardScan Executive and CardScan Personal quickly and effortlessly turn business cards into electronic information that can be easily managed, readily accessible anywhere on any device, and maintained for the life of the contact. In the latest versions of its CardScan products, Corex replaced its existing OCR technology with ScanSoft's OmniPage Capture SDK, which along with Corex's proprietary interpretive scanning technology has resulted in improved accuracy, correcting over 21 percent more optical character recognition errors when compared to earlier versions.

"CardScan customers know that they can always expect the highest levels of accuracy from our products," said Peter J. Weyman, president of Corex Technologies. "When we looked to improve the OCR engine within CardScan, ScanSoft was the first vendor that we approached. Their advanced imaging capabilities are the perfect complement to our own proprietary technology - the combination of the two award-winning solutions allows our customers to work as efficiently as possible, achieving the highest levels of accuracy and productivity."

"This agreement underscores the increasing demand for accuracy within productivity and organization tools such as CardScan," said Robert Weideman, senior vice president, ScanSoft Productivity Applications. "For people seeking to organize their lives and save time with products such as CardScan, accuracy is critical. By replacing the previous OCR in CardScan with ScanSoft's award-winning OCR technology and combining it with Corex's proprietary interpretive scanning technology, Corex can exceed their customers' expectations - delivering a 21 percent improvement in accuracy and, ultimately, productivity."

ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK

Designed for optimal 32-bit application development, the ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK is everything a developer needs to quickly add sophisticated imaging, recognition and PDF capabilities to commercial and in-house software applications. It is the number-one OCR toolkit in the world, supporting Latin, Cyrillic and Asian recognition applications, and is used in nearly all of the leading commercial applications that support imaging and OCR, including Autodesk Raster Design, Canon imageWARE, Cardiff TELEform, Corex Technologies CardScan, FileNET Panagon Capture, Kofax Ascent Capture, Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft SharePoint.

About Corex Technologies

Founded in 1993, Corex Technologies Corporation is the leading provider of solutions designed to accelerate the capture, access, and accuracy of business contact information. Corex's award-winning flagship product, CardScan Executive, is a state of the art business card scanner bundled with sophisticated contact management tools, including CardScan.Net and the AccuCard service. Corex also offers CardScan Personal for users with basic contact management needs. Corex is a privately held company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Corex products are available at major office retailers such as Office Depot, Office Max, Staples and CompUSA, authorized resellers or directly from Corex at www.cardscan.com.

About ScanSoft, Inc.

ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT) is the leading supplier of speech and imaging solutions that are used to automate a wide range of manual processes - saving time, increasing worker productivity and improving customer service.

Trademark reference: ScanSoft and OmniPage are trademarks or registered trademarks of ScanSoft, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All other company names and products names mentioned may be to the trademarks of their respective owners.

The statements in this press release that relate to future plans, events or performance are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with market trends, competitive factors, and other risks identified in ScanSoft's SEC filings. Actual results, event and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date hereof.

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