NeoReader User Guide

1. Install and start

Ubuntu

1. Install NeoReader-0.67.1-Linux-x86_64.deb.
2. Start NeoReader from the application menu.
3. Open Help → About and confirm Version 0.67.1.
4. Open Help → Components. qpdf, OpenSSL, Tesseract, OCR data and the licence trust key should be Available. LibreOffice is optional.
5. Quit with Ctrl+Q and launch again.

macOS

1. Open NeoReader-0.67.1-macOS-universal.dmg in Finder.
2. Drag NeoReader to Applications and launch that copy.
3. About must show Version 0.67.1.
4. Quit with Command-Q and relaunch from Applications or Launchpad.

2. Free and Pro

A new installation starts as Free and Unlicensed. Help → License & Edition shows the current edition, SKU, device ID and validity.

1. Use Offline Activation → Request Licence to create a device-bound .neoreader-request file.
2. Submit it through the Request Licence page.
3. When NeoReader supplies the signed .neoreader-license file, import it through Offline Activation.
4. A licence issued for another device is rejected.

Free keeps reading and basic markup available. Pro enables the commercial workflow used for OCR, redaction, watermark, compare, forms and annotated export.

3. Open, read and move

1. Use File → Open PDF.
2. Use Previous, Next or page thumbnails to navigate.
3. Zoom in or out. At high zoom, use the Hand tool to pan.
4. Rotate pages when required. Digital text remains selectable on supported source-preserving paths.
5. Find searches digital text and selecting a result jumps to its page.

Password-protected PDFs are not supported in this release. A corrupt or truncated PDF is rejected without replacing the document already open.

4. Mark up a page

NeoReader markup is an overlay. The source PDF is not directly overwritten.

• Pen / Highlighter: draw on the page and use Undo when required.
• Signature: draw or reuse a signature, then move or resize it.
• Notes / Comments: place and manage review information.
• Stamp / Image: insert as annotations.
• Save Project As: preserves the NeoReader editing session.

5. Export an annotated PDF

1. Choose File → Export Annotated PDF. This requires Pro.
2. Save to a new filename.
3. Reopen the exported PDF and verify the annotations.
4. The original source file remains unchanged.

Do not use annotated export on a signed PDF if the embedded signature must remain intact. Keep the signed original.

6. Forms

With Pro, enter field values, export/import XFDF when needed, and use Export Annotated PDF when the completed values must be preserved in a new PDF.

7. Redaction

1. Select Redaction in Pro and cover the text that must be removed.
2. Export the redacted PDF.
3. Use Extract Text on the exported copy to confirm the covered sentence is absent while unaffected text remains.

Redaction is not the same as placing a black pen stroke over text.

8. Sign and verify

1. Choose the embedded PDF signing command.
2. Select the PKCS#12 certificate and enter its password.
3. Set a reason and save a new PDF.
4. Use Verify Embedded PDF Signature on the signed copy.

9. Create and convert PDFs

• Create a blank PDF.
• Merge PDFs.
• Convert PDF pages to PNG/JPEG.
• Convert images to PDF.
• Convert a text file to PDF.

10. OCR a scan

1. If starting from images, first use Images to PDF.
2. Choose File → OCR Scanned Pages.
3. For the tested build, use English (eng).
4. Wait for recognition to finish.
5. Export the annotated/searchable PDF and reopen it.
6. Find and Extract Text should then work on recognized content.

11. Watermark, print and compare

NeoReader can apply a watermark to an exported copy, print or save through the system print workflow, and compare two documents while keeping the primary document available afterward.

12. Current release limits

• No Windows public package in this release.
• No password-protected PDF opening.
• No cloud sync.
• English is the tested OCR language.
• LibreOffice is optional.
• Stylus input was not part of the tested hardware.

13. If something looks wrong

• About is not 0.67.1: you may not be running the current public build.
• Components reports Missing: repair or reinstall the packaged NeoReader build.
• Export, OCR, Watermark or Compare is grey: check License & Edition. These commercial functions require the appropriate paid edition.
• Licence import says signature not trusted: confirm the licence was issued for this device and this NeoReader installation.
• Find is still 0 after OCR: reopen the exported searchable PDF.