PEABODY, Mass., June 13, 2005 – ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT), a global leader of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that ScanSoft® PDF Converter Professional has received the Editors’ Choice award and a five-star rating from the editors of IT Week, following a rigorous technical and usability analysis of the product.

ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional is a fast, affordable solution that brings PDF creation, conversion, editing and form filling to every business desktop for just $99 – eliminating the historical trade-off between price and functionality. ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional goes even further than traditional PDF solutions, delivering unique, powerful PDF capabilities not found elsewhere such as form filling, conversion to Microsoft Word and Excel, support for security and encryption, as well as editing, sticky-notes and highlighting tools.

In its review, IT Week applauded PDF Converter Professional for its functionality and value – praising the unique FormTyper™ feature, which makes any PDF form fillable with a single click, as well as its powerful PDF conversion capability, which turns existing PDF files into fully-formatted Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect documents or Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. In addition to the coveted Editors’ Choice Award, PDF Converter Professional earned the highest rating possible from IT Week editors – a perfect score of five stars.

According to IT Week editors: “We recently had the chance to test ScanSoft's PDF Converter Professional 3 and found it to be an excellent tool, very easy to use and produced quality PDF documents…We found the program packed with so many features we give it our Editors Choice Award!”

The complete review can be found on the ScanSoft Web site at http://www.scansoft.com/news/inthenews/

ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional

ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional brings PDF creation, conversion, editing and form filling to every business desktop, providing business users with a complete PDF solution for just $99 – 66% less than alternatives. High quality PDF files can be created from any PC application, or converted into fully-formatted Microsoft Word, Excel, and Corel WordPerfect documents, forms and spreadsheets and back again. This allows the user to share documents and adds editing capabilities for working with PDF files. Users can also leverage enhanced security settings such as watermarking, permissions and encryption to PDF files. PDF Converter Professional is the first full-featured PDF product designed and priced specifically for business.

“We are proud that ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional has been recognized for its powerful features and exceptional value,” said Robert Weideman, senior vice president, ScanSoft Productivity Applications. “This acknowledgement provides further validation that ScanSoft is truly delivering what it takes to provide ‘Better PDF for Business’ by offering features designed specifically for increasing business productivity. We thank the editors of IT Week, a respected and trusted information source, for this honor.”

About ScanSoft, Inc.

ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT) is the global leader 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. For more information regarding ScanSoft® products and technologies, please visit www.scansoft.com.

Trademark reference: ScanSoft, the ScanSoft logo, FormTyper, and the PDF Create! logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of ScanSoft, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other company or product names mentioned may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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