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Documents too big to email your client? We fix that.

Zero sign-in. Zero logins. Zero uploads to a third party.

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VellumDoc

Optimize

Shrink files while preserving every byte of content.
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Tender_Package_Rev_C.pdf184.2 MB · 24 pages · 47 images
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✓ Verified
Recompressed 47 embedded images at display resolution
Removed duplicate assets and hidden metadata
Optimized document structure and embedded fonts
Saved to ~/Desktop/Tender_Package_Rev_C_optimized.pdf
“No business data, formulas, worksheets or document content were removed.”
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4 files selectedPricing_Schedule.xlsx · Methodology_Deck.pptx · Technical_Response.docx · Drawings_Rev_C.pdf — 380.4 MB
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380.4 MB24.1 MB · under the 25 MB limit
Pricing_Schedule.xlsx — 96.1 MB → 6.2 MB · formulas and pivots intact
Methodology_Deck.pptx — 142.8 MB → 7.1 MB · animations and notes kept
Technical_Response.docx — 38.5 MB → 3.4 MB · styles and references kept
Drawings_Rev_C.pdf — 103.0 MB → 7.4 MB · line work and annotations kept
Saved to ~/Desktop/VellumDoc Submission/
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Scanned_Contract_signed.pdf18.4 MB · 24 pages · no text layer
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Scanned_Contract_signed.docx · 24 pages · text recognised and editable
Saved to ~/Desktop/
Office → PDF is high-fidelity. PDF → Office is content-focused (text/tables/page-images), not pixel-perfect layout.
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Scanned_Contract_signed.pdf18.4 MB · 24 pages · scanned
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✓ Recognized
24 pages · 8,412 words now searchable and selectable
Saved to ~/Desktop/Scanned_Contract_signed_ocr.pdf
Fully offline (Tesseract). Nothing leaves your machine.
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3 files selectedSection_A.pdf · Section_B.pdf · Appendix.pdf
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3 documents merged · 118 pages
Saved to ~/Desktop/merged.pdf
Merge, split, extract, rotate, watermark, and password-protect — all offline.
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Received by Marianne Okonjo on 4 August 2026, the sum shall be remitted to account 4471 0092 8830 held at the branch named herein, within thirty days of execution.

Signed for and on behalf of the receiving party:

Marianne Okonjo
✓ Saved
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Saved to ~/Desktop/Settlement_Agreement_v4_filled.pdf
Pick a tool, then click the page to place it. Redact permanently removes the underlying text — the saved file is reopened and searched to confirm nothing survived.
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~/Projects/Rev_C_Issue62 files · Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDF
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done · 2 skipped (corrupt — listed in the report)
2.41 GB → 214 MB across 60 files
Paused and resumed from where it stopped
One bad file didn’t stop the run
Saved beside each original · report at ~/Projects/Rev_C_Issue/_vellumdoc_out/

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What it does

Four jobs that eat your Thursday afternoon,
handled.

/ 01

Optimize

“Outlook bounced it. Again.”

A 96 MB workbook or a 180 MB drawing set reduced to something you can actually attach — every formula, pivot, macro, hyperlink and form field still working. Name a target size and it works back to fit.

85%typical reduction
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Submission

“The portal caps at 25 MB and it closes at five.”

Give it the limit and hand it the whole package — pricing schedule, method statement, drawings, technical response. It optimises the set together and produces an upload-ready folder that fits.

380→24 MBa real tender pack
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Convert

“They sent a scan and want it in Word by lunchtime.”

PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint or images, and Office back to PDF. Scanned pages are recognised on the way through, so what lands is genuinely editable rather than a picture of a document.

6conversion directions
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Edit PDFs

“It needs filling, signing, and one clause taken out.”

Text, ticks, highlights, stamps, shapes and saved signatures — placed by clicking, snapped to detected fields. Plus proper redaction: the characters leave the file, and the output is reopened to prove it.

0characters recoverable
Searchable-PDF OCR Background batch folders Signature library Merge, split, extract Watermark & password protect Rearrange & rotate pages Pause and resume runs Target-size compression Searchable-PDF OCR Background batch folders Signature library Merge, split, extract Watermark & password protect Rearrange & rotate pages Pause and resume runs Target-size compression
Sound familiar?

You’ve had this afternoon before.

Tender day

“Submission closes at 5pm. The package is 380 MB. The portal takes 25.”

Four files, four formats, one hard ceiling — and the last person who compressed the workbook broke a pivot table nobody noticed until after award.

Submission: give it the limit, hand it the folder, get an upload-ready package with the spreadsheet logic intact.

The bounced email

“Your message couldn’t be delivered. Attachment exceeds 20 MB.”

So you upload to Drive instead, send a link, and the client emails back asking why they need an account to read their own contract.

Shrink it to attachable and just send the file. No link, no login, no third party holding a copy.

The scan

“Can you get this into Word? It’s only 40 pages.”

It’s a scan of a scan with no text layer. Retyping is two hours you don’t have, and the free online converter wants you to upload a signed client agreement.

OCR and convert in one pass, locally. Editable Word with the layout intact and nothing uploaded.

The redaction

“Take the account number out before this goes to the other side.”

You draw a black box in Preview. The number is still in the file — select the page, paste it anywhere, and out it comes. That’s how redaction failures make the news.

Redact removes the characters, then reopens the saved file and searches it to confirm nothing survived.

No signal

“We’re on a satellite link and the upload’s been spinning for forty minutes.”

Cloud tools assume bandwidth. A rig, a remote plant, a basement records room and a plane all assume otherwise.

Everything runs on the laptop’s own processor. No connection makes no difference.

The security questionnaire

“Which third parties process our documents, and where are they stored?”

Every cloud tool you use becomes a line on that form, a vendor to assess, and a jurisdiction to explain.

None and nowhere. There’s no processor to name because the file never leaves the machine.

Next How the security holds up Offline by architecture, verified redaction, and a statement written for vendor assessments.
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Apple Silicon · macOS 12 or later · 557 MB