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Gerry · 05-15-2009, 06:27 PM

Yesterdays Boston Globe posted an article on the scanning software OmniPage 17 having a scan to Kindle feature. Here is the link:

http://www.boston.com/business/ticke...unveils_2.html

The article states that "Nuance Communications Inc. may be best known for specializing in speech-recognition technology, but the Burlington company has just unveiled its latest scanning application, which, among many other features, allows users to scan documents and send them to their Amazon Kindle e-readers..."

If you follow the link to the company press release in the article it becomes even more interesting:

http://finance.boston.com/boston/?GU...er&Ticker=NUAN

"By leveraging recent advances in eBook technologies, highlighted by the popularity of the Amazon Kindle 2, OmniPage 17 includes features that maximize the value of ‘electronic paper’ to not only saves trees but also deliver advantages over physical paper. The new release includes support for various eBook and PDF formats, as well as the first-ever “Scan-to-Kindle” feature, with documents automatically re-formatted specifically for easy reading and navigating using the Kindle 2 form-factor. This is an important new feature in light of recent analyst predictions that, in the future, 75 percent of all book sales will be sold in an eBook format. (2) OmniPage also creates the document text needed for using search and the synthesized text-to-speech (TTS) “read-aloud” feature from Nuance that is built into the Kindle 2 and other devices."

05-15-2009, 06:27 PM	#1
Gerry Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Boston, MA Device: Cybook Gen 3	Boston Globe article titled "Nuance's OmniPage 17 has scan-to-Kindle feature" Yesterdays Boston Globe posted an article on the scanning software OmniPage 17 having a scan to Kindle feature. Here is the link: http://www.boston.com/business/ticke...unveils_2.html The article states that "Nuance Communications Inc. may be best known for specializing in speech-recognition technology, but the Burlington company has just unveiled its latest scanning application, which, among many other features, allows users to scan documents and send them to their Amazon Kindle e-readers..." If you follow the link to the company press release in the article it becomes even more interesting: http://finance.boston.com/boston/?GU...er&Ticker=NUAN "By leveraging recent advances in eBook technologies, highlighted by the popularity of the Amazon Kindle 2, OmniPage 17 includes features that maximize the value of ‘electronic paper’ to not only saves trees but also deliver advantages over physical paper. The new release includes support for various eBook and PDF formats, as well as the first-ever “Scan-to-Kindle” feature, with documents automatically re-formatted specifically for easy reading and navigating using the Kindle 2 form-factor. This is an important new feature in light of recent analyst predictions that, in the future, 75 percent of all book sales will be sold in an eBook format. (2) OmniPage also creates the document text needed for using search and the synthesized text-to-speech (TTS) “read-aloud” feature from Nuance that is built into the Kindle 2 and other devices."