EFI and Nuance come together

Digital controller and printer providing firm EFI announced with speech and imaging solution provider Nuance Communications, Inc. today that their two firms had come to a licensing and collaboration agreement in providing complete document routing solutions and scanner to desktop solutions. The firms will, as a result of the far-reaching agreement, combine forces in sales areas, marketing activities, and future product releases.

With the target audience of office workers and design professionals, EFI will in future standardize via Nuance’s ScanSoft PaperPort. This will become its desktop component for EFI product including the Fiery and SendMe solutions and will be carrying the brand names of EFI Desktop SE and EFI Desktop Professional. Automation of document processes is at the heart of the collaboration, with easy-to-use scanning, image enhancement, PDF and document management capabilities.

EFI SendMe is claimed to be the number one digital document distribution and management solution, with more than fourteen million users using Fiery technology for its color, high quality output and innovation. ScanSoft PaperPort is the top scanning and document management application in the world, boasting patented features used by millions in document work on the personal computer. The EFI Desktop products are promised to complement the EFI Fiery and SendMe solutions by adding scanning, document assembly and PDF capabilities on the desktop with a training-free application.

Document Imaging Report editor / publisher Ralph Gammon said that “The collaboration between Nuance and EFI represents a powerful alliance of independent vendors. It creates a versatile solution that can be deployed in conjunction with the multiple hardware lines and software applications that typically exist within a single organization.”

Meanwhile EFI worldwide marketing and sales senior vice president Frank Mallozzi enthused that “The EFI Desktop SE and Desktop Professional solutions enable customers to distribute, archive and print documents from a single, unified interface. Now, managing the deluge of electronic documents corporate workers face everyday will be a lot simpler.”