PHILADELPHIA - AIIM 2005 Conference – May 18, 2005 – ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT), the leading global supplier of speech and imaging solutions, today announced today that Visioneer, Inc., a leader in intelligent imaging solutions, has signed a worldwide license agreement to bundle ScanSoft imaging software with the full range of Visioneer scanning solutions. ScanSoft PaperPort® is the world’s most popular PC document management application for Microsoft Windows, and ScanSoft’s OmniPage® is the world’s best-selling and most accurate PDF conversion and optical character recognition (OCR) solution for the PC.

“Visioneer’s high-performance business scanners and imaging software solutions offer business users unparalleled speed, quality, advanced paper handling options and ease-of-use,” said Robert Weideman, senior vice president, ScanSoft Productivity Applications. “In addition, with ScanSoft PaperPort, Visioneer scanners are poised to deliver integrated desktop applications that have all of the capabilities of professional document capture, but are easy to use and deploy.”

In 2003, Visioneer combined its leading scanner technology with Xerox brand recognition to develop the Xerox DocuMate series of award-winning workgroup scanners. The integration of ScanSoft OmniPage enables users to easily set the destination of their scanned document, including scan-to-searchable PDF, scan-to-print, scan-to-archive, scan-to-network and scan-to-email. In addition, with ScanSoft PaperPort, users can quickly and easily scan, annotate, email or archive documents in the PDF file format. ScanSoft imaging software will now be bundled with all of Visioneer’s scanning solutions, including the Xerox DocuMate series.

“For many vendors the software included with their devices are treated as an afterthought, lacking any serious integration and missing key features,” said Murray L. Dennis, president and CEO for Visioneer. “Visioneer customers get real productivity benefits from the Visioneer-ScanSoft integrated solution, including unrivaled support for important standards such as PDF and XML.”

PaperPort Professional 10 is the world’s most popular scanning and document management application for Microsoft Windows. Used by millions – from the home office to legal, medical, corporate and government organizations – PaperPort allows people to quickly organize all of their PC files, including scanned paper, PDF, digital documents and photographs. The product does this by combining the ease of one-click scanning, complete support for PDF and the convenience of its All-in-One Search™ capability into an easy to use desktop application. PaperPort has gained industry respect for the unique way it allows customers to organize, find and share documents, including winning "Product of the Year" and repeated “Editors’ Choice” awards from PC Magazine, and being named one of the "Hottest 50 Products" by Smart Computing in 2004.

PaperPort makes it easier than ever to reduce paper and create an organized office. One-click scanning makes it possible for everyone to get professional-quality document capture from practically any scanning device – sheet-fed, flatbed, all-in-one, multifunction device or digital copier. Users can even scan from a networked digital copier and have the electronic document automatically moved across the network to their PC by PaperPort. This makes scanning as easy as making a copy, while saving on the expense of paper and toner. PaperPort’s professional document capture capabilities go even further, providing Scanner Enhancement Technology (SET) tools that make image correction and annotation as easy as point & click. The SET™ feature eliminates the need to re-shoot a dark photo, or re-scan a crooked or poor quality document.

OmniPage is the world’s best-selling and most accurate solution for turning paper into searchable PDF archives, and into to fully-formatted Microsoft Office formats. The product significantly increases productivity by replacing the need to manually re-create paper and image-based documents with an automated, electronic process. In addition, OmniPage combines desktop ease-of-use with advanced XML, batch processing, PDF and Open eBook capabilities - all within a single application. OmniPage has garnered many industry awards and accolades from respected media outlets, including repeated “Editors’ Choice” awards from PC Magazine and C|Net.

ScanSoft will be in Booth #743 and Visioneer will be in booth # 87 & 88 at the AIIM OnDemand Conference and Exposition, taking place in Philadelphia May 17-19, 2005.

About Visioneer

Visioneer is a world-class developer of intelligent imaging solutions that provide a faster and easier way to capture documents and photographs and integrate them with document imaging applications. The company has made a strong commitment to providing leading edge technology, a robust software bundles and an excellent value proposition. In 2003, Visioneer combined its leading scanner technology with Xerox’ brand recognition to develop the Xerox DocuMate series of workgroup scanners. According to the 2004 InfoTrends Document Imaging Scanner forecast, Visioneer is now the 3rd largest vendor in the workgroup scanner segment, the fastest growing segment in our market. Visioneer and Xerox branded products provide a family of hardware solutions for the distributed, desktop and departmental scanner markets as well as the mobile and remote business scanning and storage segments. For additional information on Visioneer and Xerox scanning solutions, please visit www.visioneer.com or www.xeroxscanners.com

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, PaperPort, OmniPage, All-in-One Search, and SET 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.

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, events 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.