foxit
The #1
Adobe Acrobat
Alternative
Foxit is faster, smarter and more highly rated than
Adobe Acrobat.*
Adobe Acrobat.*
*According to G2 user reviews.
foxit
The Superior Alternative Solution
Create and Export PDF
Feature
Foxit PDF Editor+
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Create industry standard PDF files from virtually all PC applications and the clipboard
✓
✓
Create PDF from multiple files with different file types, scanner, blank page
✓
✓
One-click PDF creation from IE, Edge, Chrome, and Firefox
✓
✓
One-step PDF creation from Microsoft® Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
✓
✓
Create tagged PDF when creating from Microsoft® Word, Excel, PowerPoint
✓
✓
Create PDFs from Microsoft® Project and Vision
✓
✓
Convert DWG-files into 3D PDF
✓
✓
Create PDF from templates
✓
×
Create PDF blank portfolio, or portfolio from webpage, scanner, folders, clipboard, etc.
✓
×
PDF/A, E, and X file validation
✓
✓
Convert PDF file to industry-standard PDF A/E/X
✓
✓
Convert PDF to Microsoft® Office, HTML and image formats
✓
✓
Convert PDF to XPS
✓
×
Save PDF to Google Drive as gDocs, gSlides, or gSheets
✓
✓
Export selected area to Microsoft® Office, RTF, XML and HTML formats
✓
✓
Append created PDF to an existing file
✓
×
foxit
The Superior Alternative Solution
Edit PDF
Feature
Foxit PDF Editor+
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Paragraph editing with automatic reflow and reformat
✓
✓
Add and delete text, edit text (font, alignment, bullets and numbering, etc.)
✓
✓
Move and resize paragraphs
✓
✓
Link and join text
✓
×
Move, resize, rotate, flip, cut/copy and paste, and delete graphic and image objects
✓
✓
Add graphic and image objects
✓
✓
Advanced editing: Add shading object, edit graphic/shading/image objects, clipping effect, convert text to path, etc
✓
×
Reflow editing
✓
×
Add, edit, delete and manage document hyperlinks and bookmarks, custom actions for bookmarks and hyperlinks, such as opening a file, playing a sound, going to a web page, etc.
✓
✓
Automatically create bookmarks from text (pattern)
✓
×
Export and import bookmarks
✓
×
Add, edit and delete Cross Reference Links
✓
×
Recognize and remove web links
✓
✓
Add, edit, delete and manage image, animation and multimedia annotations
✓
✓
Create named positions
✓
✓
Add a U3D or PRC 3D object
✓
✓
foxit
The Superior Alternative Solution
Edit PDF
Feature
Foxit PDF Editor+
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Move, delete, or resize the 3D canvas
✓
✓
Comment and measurement on 3D objects
✓
✓
Search and replace
✓
✓
Run spell-check on entire document and correct typos
✓
✓
Add, edit, delete and manage headers and footers, backgrounds, and watermarks on a single PDF file or in batch
✓
✓
Bates Numbering
✓
✓
Manage pages in a document (insert, delete, extract, move, swap, interleaving, duplicate, replace, split, rotate, resize and crop pages)
✓
No interleaving, swap, resize
Reverse the page order in a few steps
✓
×
Merge multiple files into a single PDF document
✓
✓
Rearrange pages based on the order of the bookmarks
✓
×
Insert pages of the current PDF into other files
✓
×
Define a navigational path for articles in PDF that span multiple columns and/or across several pages
✓
✓
PDF optimizer
✓
✓
Import as Layer / Merge Layers / Flatten Layers / Edit Layer Properties
✓
✓
Edit portfolios
✓
✓
Actions and Custom Commands
✓
✓
Accounting Calculator to quickly record calculations in an existing PDF file
✓
×
foxit
The Superior Alternative Solution
eSign PDF
Feature
Foxit PDF Editor+
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Sign documents with Foxit legally-binding electronic signature service
✓
×
Initiate signature request for a Foxit eSign workflow
✓
×
Check document signing status in a Foxit eSign workflow
✓
×
foxit
The Superior Alternative Solution
Collaborate and Share PDF
Feature
Foxit PDF Editor+
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Add, manage, view and navigate document comments with familiar comment/markup tools (notes, text boxes, callouts, highlight, underline, strikeout, squiggly, typewriter, Stamps, etc.) and drawing tools (comment tools including lines, rectangles, pencils, polygon, cloud, arrows)
✓
✓
Initiate a Shared Review to include Foxit PDF Editor and Foxit PDF Reader users through email, a network folder, or a SharePoint workspace
✓
✓
Track documents that have been shared for review
✓
✓
Search and highlight the searched words
✓
Only Search
Measuring tool for distance, perimeter and area measuring
✓
✓
Attach a file as a comment
✓
✓
Organize and manage a library of stamps
✓
✓
Import/Export comments data and summarize comments
✓
✓
Export highlighted text
✓
×
Area highlight
✓
×
Tickmark
✓
×
Evernote Integration
✓
×
Integrates with ECM systems and cloud services, including SharePoint, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, and Dropbox
✓
✓
Integrates with ECM systems and cloud services, including Epona DMSforLegal, ndOffice, iManage, Alfresco, ShareFile, EnterConnect, Worldox, eDOCS DM, Documentum, Egnyte
✓
×
foxit
The Superior Alternative Solution
Scan and OCR PDF
Feature
Foxit PDF Editor+
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Scan to create new PDF
✓
✓
Scan to insert into existing PDF
✓
✓
Convert scanned/image-based PDFs to searchable or editable documents
✓
✓
OCR parts of the scanned page
✓
×
Find OCR suspects and mark them as Not Text or edit the recognition results in batch
✓
No in batch
Scan presets
✓
✓
Scan to Save Multiple Files
✓
✓
foxit
The Superior Alternative Solution
Fill and Design PDF Forms
Feature
Foxit PDF Editor+
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Form field recognition and form designer assistant (text fields, buttons, drop-down lists, check boxes, radio buttons, barcode, date, image and digital signature fields)
✓
✓
Fill in and save forms, including XFA form
✓
✓
Digitally sign Acro forms and XFA forms
✓
✓
Page template
✓
✓
Edit static XFA form
✓
✓
Import/Export form data, reset form fields
✓
✓
Combine form data (in pdf, ppdf, fdf, xfdf and xml format) to a CSV file
✓
✓
JavaScript support
✓
✓
Intelligently detect the area to be filled in flat form
✓
✓
Auto-completion support
✓
✓
foxit
The Superior Alternative Solution
Protect and Sign PDF
Feature
Foxit PDF Editor+
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Removes undesired information from your document before publishing, like metadata, comments, hidden data from previous saves, hidden layers, overlapping objects, and more
✓
✓
Add, edit, delete and manage password/certification secure encryption and permission controls to PDF files
✓
✓
Quick PDF Sign using your handwritten signature or an image of your signatures
✓
✓
Style customization for ink signatures
✓
×
Place ink signature on multiple pages in the same position
✓
×
Send, sign and save PDF documents using DocuSign, the industry's most widely used eSignature solution
✓
×
Add, edit, delete and manage security policies
✓
✓
Add, edit, delete and manage digital signatures to PDF files
✓
✓
Customize the logo of digital signature
✓
×
Place digital signature on multiple files in batch
✓
×
Add trusted time stamps to digital signatures or documents
✓
✓
Support the verification of the European Union Trusted List digital signatures
✓
✓
Certify document and set permitted actions after certifying
✓
✓
Permanently remove content from documents using redaction
✓
✓
foxit
The Superior Alternative Solution
Protect and Sign PDF
Feature
Foxit PDF Editor+
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Customize a profile that specifies the text strings you want to search and redact
✓
×
AI-Based Redaction
✓
×
Mark partial words for redactions after search
✓
✓
Use the Whiteout feature to apply redaction with one-click to simply and securely erase any content to white background
✓
×
RMS redaction in Microsoft® Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
✓
×
Microsoft® Active Directory Rights Management Services Decryption
✓
×
Microsoft® Active Directory Rights Management Services Encryption on a single file or in batch
✓
×
Insert dynamic security watermarks in AD RMS protected files
✓
×
Log the usage of RMS secured document such as opening, printing, editing
✓
×
Classify and protect with labels in Microsoft® Azure Information Protection (AIP)
✓
×
Microsoft® Windows Information Protection (WIP) Support
✓
✓
Safe mode to control unauthorized actions and data transmissions
✓
✓
foxit
The Superior Alternative Solution
View and Print PDF
Feature
Foxit PDF Editor+
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Multi-tab viewing PDF documents
✓
✓
View and navigate page thumbnails, bookmarks
✓
✓
Reflow view
✓
✓
Ruler, Guides, Grids to help positioning objects in the PDF
✓
✓
Text viewer, Magnifier
✓
×
Line Weights and Toggle Ruler to help viewing PDF
✓
Only Line Weights
Read out loud
✓
✓
Side-by-side document comparisons
✓
✓
View documents in Horizontal or Vertical tab groups
✓
×
View and do more with PDF portfolios
✓
✓
Display PRC type of 3D documents
✓
✓
Search including bookmarks and comments
✓
✓
Search only in bookmark
✓
×
Search in all opened PDFs
✓
×
Allows the Windows indexing service and other Windows search technologies to index PDF files
✓
×
Create and search a full-text index
✓
✓
Print PDF documents and forms
✓
✓
Print pages from selected bookmark(s)
✓
✓
Print with comments for efficient review
✓
✓
Touch screen support
✓
✓
Allows users to create new tabs or customize current tabs in a ribbon based toolbar
✓
×
foxit
The Superior Alternative Solution
ChatGPT Integration
Feature
Foxit PDF Editor+
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Chat with AI
✓
✓
Chat about document (analyse the document)
✓
×
Translate the text/document
✓
×
Summarize the text & document
✓
✓
Smart PDF Commands
✓
×
Enhance writing of the text
✓
×
Define and clarify the text
✓
×
Fix spelling & grammar of the text
✓
×
Foxit AI Chatbot (Support Center)
✓
×
foxit
The Superior Alternative Solution
Accessibility
Feature
Foxit PDF Editor+
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Accessibility full check and check report
✓
✓
Fix failed parts after accessibility check
✓
✓
Touch up reading order to add and edit tag
✓
✓
Autotag document and tag report
✓
✓
foxit
The Superior Alternative Solution
Application Personalization
Feature
Foxit PDF Editor+
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Customize Skin styles
✓
×
Ribbon Customization
✓
×
Preferences Search
✓
×
The Superior Alternative Solution
Ready to Transform Your PDF Workflow?
Discover a smarter and more cost-effective alternative for editing,
signing, protecting and managing your PDF documents with Foxit PDF
solutions.
✓
Powerful PDF Tools
✓
Flexible Licensing
✓
Business-Ready Solution
✓
Local Support