Nuance - Nuance Productivity Suite 2

The latest and greatest productivity tools – at amazing value
Expand your technical skills without breaking your budget. Reach new levels of productivity with all-new versions of Nuance’s productivity solutions in the field of OCR, scanning, PDF, document management and speech recognition, all in one value-packed offering.
Only the features you really need
People and organisations are unique, and so are their needs. Nuance Productivity Suite offers you the most useful and flexible tools available to increase your efficiency, in a perfect combination of intuitive usability and advanced functionality. With Nuance Productivity Suite, you’ll be able to develop new ways of working that will allow you to meet all of your challenges – and those of your business.
The perfect add-on to Microsoft Office and Outlook
Experience the ultimate in performance by running Nuance Productivity Suite on computers running Microsoft® Windows Vista™, XP or 2000. Work faster than ever thanks to the exceptional combination of the tools in the productivity suite and their seamless integration with traditional Windows applications: create, convert, edit and organise files to and from popular applications like Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Corel WordPerfect... as well as the most actual, including XPS and Microsoft Office 2007.
Create efficient new workflows
The four applications that make up Nuance Productivity Suite work together with each other and with traditional Windows applications in ways that make entirely new workflows possible that can you massive amounts of time and effort where you may have thought no improvement was possible. They are fully-featured and their versatility will allow you to discover the workflow that meets your needs. Here are some ways in which you can make the most out of Nuance Productivity Suite:
- You get an assignment on paper that you need to process quickly. First, scan it and run OCR on it with OmniPage to turn it into an editable Word file so you can make corrections or comments. Don’t waste time typing and looking from page to screen - dictate your corrections with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Save and convert into a PDF with just one click using the integrated PDF Converter Professional toolbar in your word processing application, then for good measure turn it into an audio file so you can listen to the file again on the way to your next meeting. Make any later corrections straight into the PDF with PDF Converter Professional text editing. Present the assignment in the original layout with no extra effort. Collect praise, then get back to your desk and archive the document using PaperPort. By having it automatically indexed you can later retrieve it in a matter of seconds using PaperPort’s powerful search tools.
- Call up a document template (like an invoice, or a letterhead) with a single voice command; dictate your text with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and then convert the document into a PDF to retain its layout; add some dynamic form features and/or tick boxes for the recipient to fill in, insert a digital signature and secure it so no-one but your recipient can open it – all of this in PDF Converter Professional. Save and send off without having to switch to Outlook – done!
A complete speech solution
Nuance Productivity Suite contains speech recognition that allows you to create text, operate applications and even surf the internet with your voice. RealSpeak TTS technology will read back your documents in the most natural-sounding voice available. This way text and PDF files can be read out loud or saved to an audio file that you can then upload to your iPod or MP3 player for replay.
Capture valuable information
Never lose a good idea, quote or article again, whether it be in paper or electronic form. To capture information on paper documents, all you need is a digital camera and OmniPage to turn your pictures of text into editable text. Its 99% recognition accuracy and 3D Correction Technology - automatically correcting shadows and bends in the paper you took it from – guarantee a result that is identical to the original – in seconds.

Digital information can also be hard to save; some of the most useful online information is being protected in all kinds of ways to make them harder to access and copy – like documents with text in the form of an image that cannot be copy/pasted. And even then, wouldn’t you much prefer to listen to an article than to print it off and wait until you finally get round to reading it? Or consider this scenario: take your text – if it’s an image of text run it through OmniPage’s OCR first as if it were a paper document – and then have it read into an audio file for you by OmniPage.
Standards-based professional output
Nuance Productivity Suite meets your most rigorous output criteria, from industry-standard PDF to top-notch OCR recognition accuracy and layout retention combined with the most actual format support (over 30 formats supported), giving you the tools to integrate seamlessly with today’s increasing standards of efficiency and quality.
Don’t waste time getting started
Our products are made to combine powerful features with intuitive usability, so working with them doesn’t take hours of reading manuals or finding buttons. Most of the features are readily available on the main toolbar. Any additional help you may need can be found in our interactive How-to-Guides, in our extensive knowledge base with over 6,000 practical questions and answers going from installation to working with advanced features.

As for Dragon NaturallySpeaking, our current version 9 is the first version ever to not require initial training – you can start dictating right out of the box and achieve astounding accuracy instantly!
Improve efficiency of hard disk and email storage
If your job involves handling many documents, a clever folder system might not be enough to organise everything and keep a clear overview. Nuance Productivity Suite can help here. For example. PaperPort boasts an interface with thumbnail icons that shows you the layout of different pages within different file formats so you can check their content at a glance.

To save space, use PDF Converter Professional, which can create PDF files that are dramatically smaller than the original document. Also, the PDF Optimizer allows you to minimize the size of files without compromising the quality. A host of size reduction approaches from down sampling to compression and unembedding fonts allow documents to be ideally sized for sharing and archiving – generating you file sizes up to 8 times smaller than the original PDF file!

You can combine different format documents into the new PDF Packages that can easily be re-extracted later. These can serve as archive files (especially handy in Outlook as email threads and they can also be attached to an email.
Protect your health – avoid Repetitive Strain Injury
Reduce the risk of developing Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) with Nuance Productivity Suite. Use your voice to control the PC and create documents instead of typing. Create automated workflows instead of performing repetitive manual tasks that put a strain on your body, like running back and forth between a scanner (use batch processing), picking up heavy binders from a high shelf (make it all digital), going back and forth between a piece of paper and the screen (dictate while keeping your eyes on the paper); and so on.