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Welcome

The launch of Nuance's latest PDF products – version 6 – is the big news this month.

• Find out about the exciting new features this release brings, with an exclusive special offer on upgrades to PDF Converter Enterprise 6.
• PDF Portfolios is just one of the new capabilities of the PDF Converter Professional and Enterprise editions – organising, sharing and presenting files have never been easier!

If you have five or more licenses, a Nuance License Program might be perfect for you. Find out about the different options.

Read an exclusive White Paper examining the tremendous impact SharePoint 2007 is having on Enterprise Content Management (ECM).

And in the How-To section, learn how to improve the images you create with OmniPage 17.

Introducing the PDF Version 6 family:
The most powerful, time-saving and easy-to-use PDF solutions EVER!

Designed specifically for the business user, Nuance's PDF range delivers everything users need to create, convert, and edit PDF files. The new version PDF 6 range delivers greater speed, better accuracy and a host of amazing new features that customers want in business.

	PDF Create 6 PDF Create 6 allows you to create PDF files from any PC application. NEW in version 6: The improved user interface will help you to create PDF files up to 3 times faster than with other PDF software, saving you time and money. Now you can seamlessly create and attach a PDF file from within a mail message! As you are writing a message in Microsoft Outlook® or Lotus Notes, a new PDF Create button lets you browse for a file, have it converted to PDF and attached to your message. Enhanced support for Microsoft Excel® and PowerPoint® allows comments and hyperlinks from documents in these applications to be transferred to your PDF files. Plus bookmarks can be created from Excel worksheets and PowerPoint slides.
	PDF Converter 6 PDF Converter 6 is the #1 tool for turning PDF files into fully-formatted, editable PC documents. NEW in version 6: Improved conversion accuracy. Thanks to the enhanced OCR engine, PDF Converter 6 provides superior accuracy when converting your PDF or XPS files into editable and searchable formats. Convert PDF and XPS SharePoint files. Now you can turn archived PDF and XPS files into editable docu1ments from inside SharePoint and save the results to the same location or to your computer. In addition, if you have Lotus Notes, you can now easily convert PDF and XPS attachments to Word, Excel, WordPerfect, PowerPoint 2007 formats directly from the Lotus Notes message.
	PDF Converter Professional 6 PDF Converter Professional 6 is a complete, industry-standard PDF solution built specifically for the business user. Create PDF files from virtually any PC application – or convert PDF files back into fully-formatted, editable Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, XPS and Corel WordPerfect documents. NEW in version 6: Compile your PDF file in Document Assembly mode. Simply drag and drop to reorder pages within a document, or use the Insert, Replace, Delete and Extract commands to tailor which pages stay and which go. You can also apply the splitting feature in order to split a large document into multiple small documents. Scan directly to PDF. Create PDF files directly from your scanner or all-in-one device using industry-standard scanning technology Create PDF Portfolios. Place multiple files, even folders, within a single PDF file to effectively organise, share and secure document groups easier than ever before. Compare a PDF file with a Word document. Side by side document comparison of PDF to PDF is now extended with the capability to compare a PDF to a Microsoft Word document. Quickly identify differences in versions, or changes that have been made to a document or contract. Write anywhere in your PDF with Typewriter. Add text to your PDF document with the easy-to-use Typewriter tool. Save your document and the new text will become part of the PDF content. And much, much more!
	PDF Converter Enterprise 6 PDF Converter Enterprise 6 provides all the functionalities of PDF Converter Professional 6 to create, convert, edit and share PDF files, plus the following enterprise-specific capabilities: Integrate with your critical systems Customize your installation with network deployment tools Redact and Bates Number your documents, then remove sensitive metadata from behind the scenes. NEW in version 6: All the new features of PDF Converter Professional 6 PLUS: Enhanced PDF creation support for DMS. When working in the Hummingbird® Enterprise or Autonomy®-Interwoven® Worksite document management systems, you can select a file from your computer to be converted to PDF and imported into the DMS system at the current location. This functionality is also available in SharePoint. PDF creation is now super easy from inside your DMS. Convert PDF and XPS SharePoint files and Lotus Notes attachments. Now you can turn archived PDF and XPS files into editable documents from inside SharePoint and save the results to the same location or to your computer.

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PDF Converter Enterprise 6 - Your Special Offer

PDF Converter Enterprise 6 was designed to save you time, while improving productivity like never before. You’ll never retype another document thanks to best in class PDF conversion. You’ll save time with FormTyper, making PDF forms fillable and saveable. You’ll conveniently share information by creating 100% industry-standard PDF files from virtually any PC application. And you’ll feel confident knowing that your work is secured and accessed only as you permit.

See below for full pricing details and purchase links.

* Note: Shipping costs not included and will be additional to this special offer price

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Final reminder for OmniPage Professional 17...

Hurry – this special offer expires at the end of September 2009. Special pricing details and ordering links are provided below. 

* Note: Shipping costs not included and will be additional to this special offer price

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Creating PDF Portfolios

A new feature of PDF Converter 6 – Professional and Enterprise editions – is the ability to create PDF Portfolios. A PDF Portfolio is a collection of files of various file types (PDF, Microsoft Office files, images, videos, etc) and folders presented in a “virtual” document set.  You can effectively organise, share and secure document groups easier than ever before using a PDF Portfolio!

PDF Portfolios are used to create folder structures within a PDF file. Similar to packages, they are great for organising and sharing documents but this next generation tool offers much more in the way of presentation, including selecting colour palettes, embedding a welcome flash video or a header graphic for the portfolio and more.

In any situation where you need to bring together files for presenting, storing or collecting information, consider building a PDF Portfolio.

• Presenting Content: Delivering a presentation designed in PDF Portfolio allows you to present an overview while maintaining the option to drill down into a component file as the situation requires.
• Storing Information: PDF Portfolio simplifies the workflow involved in storing information and communicating with colleagues – you no longer have to provide directions on where to find a particular piece of information. At the end of a project, the relevant materials can be assembled into a PDF Portfolio ready for archiving and future reference.
• Collecting material and data: You can approach a PDF Portfolio as a template for collecting different types of data and documents.

Here are just a few of the ways people use PDF Portfolios:

• Business: Collect various file types into a Portfolio, with guides on how the document can be viewed or used.
• Government: Provide multimedia instructions on how to work on a set of documents.
• Marketing: Use multimedia PDF to present new products and information.
• Legal: Create closing binders with all necessary documents and signatory instructions.

Example of how a PDF Portfolio appears when opened.

As can be seen in the diagram above, each file in a Portfolio displays as a thumbnail on a common background in a default grid pattern.

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Save with a Nuance License Program, with as few as five users!

Nuance License Programs are easy-to-use licensing options for organisations requiring as few as five licenses of Nuance software. Nuance Licenses offer cost savings, easy license management, and the ability to add licenses later through the same agreement. The cost of media, documentation, packaging, warehousing and shipping associated with boxed products is eliminated – savings which are passed onto customers. Nuance offers two License Programs – the Nuance Site License Program and the Nuance Volume License Program.
                             
Nuance Volume License Program – quick overview

• For small to medium organisation (minimum five users)
• Licenses are purchased for each individual user. Discounts are from the standard price, and are calculated based on the number of licenses.

Nuance Site License Program – quick overview

• For medium to large organisations (minimum 201 users)
• Simplified license program – there is a single fixed fee for a range of users for a defined site (for example 201 to 500 users). You can use up to the maximum number of licenses in that range without paying additional license fees.
• The higher the user range chosen, the greater the discount achieved.
• Click here for more information about Nuance License Programs.

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White Paper: The Undeniable Importance of Paper Capture and SharePoint®

There is an unquestionable business need to convert paper documents into digital equivalents. And there is a second need to methodically store these digital assets in a central repository. In this white paper, Russ Edelman, President and CEO of Corridor Consulting, examines the force of digitizing paper, and the impact SharePoint® 2007 has had on the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) industry. “SharePoint 2007 has, for the first time, ushered us into an era of unprecedented and near ubiquitous ECM adoption”. Click here to download this white paper.

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How-To Guide: Improving the Images you create with OmniPage 17

Improve the Images you create with OmniPage 17

Automatically

You can run some image enhancing operations automatically.

Auto-deskew and auto-despeckle during image loading can be specified in the Tools>Options>Process panel.

Auto-brightness and auto-rotation (orientation) during scanning can be specified in the Tools>Options>Scanner panel.

Manually

You can also enhance the quality of images (scanned or loaded) using the SET (Scanner Enhancement Technology) tools.

	Click this button in the image toolbar to display the Image Enhancement with the SET tools.
	Crop: removes everything outside selected area
	Rotate: rotates everything by 90, 180 or 270 degrees or flips images
	Deskew: straightens image

Improve Images for OCR and Photos using OmniPage 17

Use the following SET tools to enhance the black-and-white images created by OmniPage for OCR:

	Despeckle: remove dots, spots up to 1 or 2 pixels large
	OCR Brightness: this optimizes the OCR images generated from colour or greyscale originals. This tool has no effect if the original image was black/white.
	Dropout colour: this enables a chosen colour to be dropped when pre-printed  colour forms are scanned or loaded. Then the fixed texts and boxes etc. can be dropped from the images, leaving only the respondent data visible and ready for OCR.
	3D Deskew: this lets you view the results of 3D deskewing and modify them if necessary. It is designed for digital camera input.
Use these SET tools to improve photos or pictures. Adjust settings on the sliders.
	Brightness and Contrast
	Hue / Saturation / Lightness
	Resolution

 

 

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