Inside the engines

A page that
remakes itself.

A real document, broken to its pixels and rebuilt in front of you — compressed, converted, edited. Every atom stays on your machine.

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Most document tools quietly send your files somewhere else to work on them.
VellumDoc doesn't. Everything you're about to watch happens on your own Mac.

The highlights
Compress up to 90%Heavy files made light — every byte of content kept.
Convert, mark for markPDF ↔ Word, PowerPoint, Excel with 99.4% fidelity.
Edit & sign nativelyFill, tick and sign on the real file — no third app.
Verified redactionText is stripped and checked gone — not covered.
OCR any scanTurn a flat image into searchable text, on-device.
Batch a whole folderAny operation, every file, one pass — resilient to errors.
Compression · flagship
contract-scan.pdf
84.2 MB
01 — the problem

Some files are
impossibly heavy.

A scanned contract, a photo-laden report, a deck full of renders. Too big to email, too big to file, too big to move.

02 — what happens

Every image, resized to
what the eye sees.

VellumDoc finds each embedded image and recompresses it to its displayed size — discarding invisible resolution while the page looks identical.

03 — the result

Up to 90% lighter.
Nothing lost.

Every formula, chart, signature and layout survives exactly. It isn't compression that degrades — it's optimisation that keeps.

90%size removed
100%content kept
0bytes uploaded
01 — the problem

The wrong format
at the worst time.

A PDF you need to edit in Word. A deck locked in PDF. Converters online mangle the layout — and see your file.

02 — what happens

Rebuilt mark
for mark.

PDF to Word, PowerPoint or Excel — every glyph, colour, column and drop-cap carried to its new place. Even a 60-point capital keeps its size.

03 — the result

The same document,
a new life.

99.4% of the text retained, position drift under measurement — the most faithful offline conversion we could build.

99.4%text retained
4formats
0round-trips
report.pdf
PDF
converting…
Editor · flagship
agreement.pdf — editing
01 — the problem

PDFs are meant to be
read, not changed.

Fill a form, fix a typo, add a signature — and suddenly you need three apps and a print-scan cycle.

02 — what happens

A cursor that
knows the page.

A snap engine recognises fields, checkboxes and signature lines — so filling, ticking and signing feels like a design tool, not a fight.

03 — the result

Sign, fill, done —
on the original.

Real edits to the real file, saved right where it lives. No flattening, no re-export, no third app.

3apps replaced
1signature engine
0print-scan cycles
ON
DEVICE
no cloud no account no telemetry no exceptions

The whole time, nothing left the page.

Not a byte uploaded. Not a document logged. The engines run where your files already are.

The rest of the workbench

Nine more reasons to close the other tabs.

Beyond the three flagships, VellumDoc carries a full document toolkit — every one running on-device.

Verified redaction

Text under a redaction is stripped from the file and checked gone — not hidden behind a black box.

OCR

Turn any scan into searchable, selectable text — recognised entirely on your device.

Batch processing

Run any operation across a whole folder in one pass. One corrupt file never stops the run.

Submission optimiser

Fit a whole bundle of files under a single upload limit — automatically.

Merge & split

Combine, reorder or pull apart PDF pages with a clean, direct interface.

Annotate & sign

Highlight, comment and place digital signatures with a smart snap engine.

Smart forms

Fill PDF forms with an engine that recognises the fields for you.

Watermark & secure

Stamp, watermark and lock PDFs before they leave your hands.

Image → PDF

Combine a stack of images into a single clean PDF in one step.

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Try the whole thing free

See it on
your own files.

Thirty days, every engine, no card and no account. Point it at your heaviest PDF and watch it stay on your machine.

Download for Mac — free See pricing

macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · 30-day full trial