Nuance Communications unveiled PDF Converter Professional 5, the best selling PDF desktop alternative to Adobe Acrobat for government, corporate, and academic organizations.  With the new release Nuance continues to expand on the features, quality and innovation needed to deliver “Better PDF for Business” at a time when companies are looking to save money on IT solutions.

PDF Converter Professional 5 delivers a robust set of new capabilities and improvements, all designed to simplify and streamline the way people work with PDF.  Perhaps more importantly, in this time of economic uncertainty and ever-increasing pressure on IT budgets, PDF Converter Professional is the first product to deliver a no-compromise PDF solution at prices that can save organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars.  

This no-compromise approach is also demonstrated in PDF Converter Professional’s embrace of the emerging XML Paper Specification (XPS) document format.  “XPS offers organizations a safe and trusted way to share and archive ‘same as paper’ electronic documents,” said Don Petersen, senior business development manager for Microsoft Corporation.  “Through their integration of XPS and PDF, Nuance provides users with a familiar and intuitive way to collaborate and communicate using the two most powerful electronic paper standards.”

In just three years, more than 2 million people have chosen Nuance® PDF products, including the US Attorney’s Office, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Texas Children’s Hospital, Logitech, Alston & Bird and Akerman Senterfitt.  PDF Converter Professional has won over individual users and organizations through a simple formula – deliver all the rich features needed in a PDF desktop application, including some not available in other solutions, at a price that is less than 50% of the alternatives.

PDF Converter Professional 5 and the new Enterprise Edition raise the bar for business-friendly PDF, with significant new features and important enhancements:

• E-Mail Conversion and Archive
• Single Desktop for both PDF and XPS Formats
• Document Splitting and Assembly
• Document Compare
• Distributed Document Collaboration
• Advanced and Secure Redaction
• Expanded Content Management Integration

“The release of our new line of PDF products comes at a fortuitous time, as companies look for new ways to improve operational efficiencies and reduce IT spending,” said Christopher Strammiello, vice president, Marketing and Product Strategy, in the Imaging division at Nuance.  “Even in modest quantities, a PDF Converter Professional license for 1000 seats would save $260,000 when compared to Adobe’s CLP licensing program.  Our ‘Better PDF for Business’ product line and strategy is accelerating on every measure, but most importantly in customer adoption.  We provide businesses and customers with an ideal option, a way to leverage PDF on more desktops to improve worker productivity, and a way to save money over alternatives.”