On-device OCR powered by Apple Vision
0.49 seconds per page. 19 languages. Recognizes hand-drawn tables, perspective-corrects, deskews. The OCR text goes directly into the PDF — searchable, copy-pastable, never leaves your Mac.
On-device OCR. AI summaries. Phone-signed documents.
Forty-plus tools, one license, no subscription.
Read. Edit. OCR. Sign. Compare. Compress. Redact. Forty-plus tools, organized so nothing feels buried.
0.49 seconds per page. 19 languages. Recognizes hand-drawn tables, perspective-corrects, deskews. The OCR text goes directly into the PDF — searchable, copy-pastable, never leaves your Mac.
NeuralSoft Intelligence — summarize, find clauses, draft replies, all citing pages in the active document.
Scan a QR code, sign with your finger on iPhone. The signed PDF appears in the app instantly. No app to install.
Pixel diffs and text diffs. Drift, redlines, what-changed reports — exportable as PDF or CSV.
Safari, Chrome, Firefox. Click any PDF link, open in NeuralSoft — or render in-tab with our viewer. Three browsers, one workflow.
Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box. Watched folders auto-OCR everything that drops in. Set it once.
MRC compression — five-times-smaller files, visually identical. Email a 200 MB scan in under 40 MB.
X.509 certified signatures. Visible widget or invisible cryptographic seal. PDF/A archive output, ISO-compliant.
Legal-grade tooling. Stamp ranges, scrub PII with regex presets, toggle PDF optional-content layers.
Convert, combine, split, extract, watermark, page numbers, headers/footers, optimize, encrypt, repair. Categorized in tabs — search to jump.
Record any sequence of actions. Replay on one file or a thousand. AppleScript dictionary built in.
Pure SwiftUI on Apple Silicon. Cold launch in under a second. Memory footprint under 200 MB for typical documents.
The PDF category has been dominated by subscription bloatware for two decades. NeuralSoft is the alternative — native, fast, owned outright.
| NeuralSoft PDF | Adobe Acrobat Pro | ABBYY FineReader | PDF Expert | Foxit PDF Editor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | One-time $49 | $239/year subscription | $199 + upgrades | $139/year | $159/year |
| OCR engine | On-device Apple Vision | Cloud or local | Local | Limited / cloud | Local |
| OCR speed (1000 pages) | ~8 min | ~30 min | ~25 min | ~45 min | ~35 min |
| AI summary & chat | Built in (NeuralSoft Intelligence) | Add-on, $4.99/mo | — | — | Add-on |
| Phone-signed handoff | QR-code sign-on-iPhone | Acrobat Sign app | — | — | — |
| Native macOS app | SwiftUI, Apple Silicon | Hybrid | Hybrid | Native (Swift) | Electron-style |
| Cold-launch time | ~0.8 s | ~6 s | ~5 s | ~1.5 s | ~4 s |
| Cloud upload by default | Never | Yes | No | iCloud | Optional |
| Browser extension | Safari + Chrome + Firefox | Chrome only | — | — | Chrome only |
| Macros & AppleScript | Both | JavaScript only | — | Limited | JavaScript |
Pricing as of 2026. Trademarks belong to their respective owners. Comparison reflects publicly documented features at time of writing.
Vision Framework recognizes the text. Your Mac's Neural Engine runs the OCR. NeuralSoft Intelligence does the reasoning when you ask — and only when you ask.
Nothing is uploaded by default. No content leaves your machine unless you explicitly trigger an AI feature, and you can flip those off in Settings.
Not a subscription. Not a tier maze. One license for one Mac, with every feature included.
Prices in USD. Educational, non-profit, and government discounts available — email us.
Download NeuralSoft PDF and try every feature free for 14 days. No card. No cloud. No catch.
Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later · Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) · 250 MB free disk