Foxit PDF Editor vs. Tungsten PaperPort

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Foxit PDF Editor
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
FoxitPhantom PDF is a document management software offering from FoxIt.
$10.99
per month per user
Tungsten PaperPort
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Tungsten PaperPort (formerly from Kofax and Nuance) is a document management software offering. It includes features such as desktop document management solution and allows you to manage and organize your documents in one solution.
$99
one-time fee per license
Pricing
Foxit PDF EditorTungsten PaperPort
Editions & Modules
Foxit PDF Editor
$10.99
per month per user
Foxit PDF Editor +
$13.99
per month per user
Foxit PDF Editor
$129.99
per year per user
Foxit PDF Editor+
$159.99
per year per user
PaperPort Standard
$99
one-time fee per license
PaperPort Professional
$199
one-time fee per license
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Foxit PDF EditorTungsten PaperPort
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPerpetual license products, there are no subscription or maintenance fees. Buy once, own forever.
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Community Pulse
Foxit PDF EditorTungsten PaperPort
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Foxit PDF EditorTungsten PaperPort
PDF Editors
Comparison of PDF Editors features of Product A and Product B
Foxit PDF Editor
8.8
3 Ratings
4% above category average
Tungsten PaperPort
-
Ratings
Edit Text and Images8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Merge or Split PDFs9.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Add Annotations9.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Text Recognition (OCR)9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Page Management8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Form Creation and Editing8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Secure PDFs8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Convert to Different Formats8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Comment and Review Tools9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Undo and Redo Actions9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Foxit PDF EditorTungsten PaperPort
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(33 ratings)
10.0
(10 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.7
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(7 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Foxit PDF EditorTungsten PaperPort
Likelihood to Recommend
Foxit Software
It allows me to easily create fillable forms from a document and then gives me a plethora of tools to edit the form to be exactly as I need/want it. In my opinion, it is by far the easiest tool I have used to do this. The only negative I have is that sometimes the number of features and tools can be a little daunting since there are so many.
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
Kofax PaperPort is great for any office that has paper documents - seriously! We have set up multiple businesses to use Kofax PaperPort to cut down their storage of paper receipts, invoices, documents, etc by nearly 90%! Their office is much better organized and they have the ability to edit PDF Documents for a lot cheaper than buying Adobe Acrobat.
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Pros
Foxit Software
  • FoxitPhantom carries superior editing tools over Adobe Acrobat and similar products. It allows you to modify text, images, & objects in a more robust fashion
  • Integrates well with Microsoft Office products such as Word, PPT, & Excel
  • Allows you to work in a nearly paperless environment
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
  • With Kofax PaperPort, documents can be merged, pages can be extracted from multiple documents and combined to make a new PDF document. It is an important feature as one needs to do it very often and more ubiquitous pdf readers like Adobe Acrobat Reader DC lacks functionalities like these.
  • Kofax PaperPort scans the documents and using it's OCR, converts these scans to searchable PDF documents so that these documents can be searched based on the text content in them.
  • Functionality to convert other formats to PDF and PDF to other formats. This is important as many times , we need to upload certain documents only in a specific format and conversion is required to and from PDF format.
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Cons
Foxit Software
  • I have a dual monitor setup at work and there are times when I wish that I could view pdf documents on both monitors at the same time. I have not yet figured out how to do that with FoxitPhantom as it appears to limit the user to displaying multiple pdf documents as separate tabs on the same screen. If dual screen is an option in the software, it needs to be more apparent.
  • I can't think of any other desired improvements. This software really does everything that I need it to do.
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
  • It should have a back button, so if you go from one folder to the next, it would be simple to get back to the first folder.
  • When you combine two PDFs, it should retain the title of the one that's on top.
  • The send to bar should be easier to change.
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Likelihood to Renew
Foxit Software
Because very few editors are so easy to use and deploy backed by speed and performance. Foxit PDF is known for its speed and performance, allowing users to open and work with PDF files quickly and efficiently
Foxit's user-friendly interface is easy to navigate and use, making it a popular choice for users who are new to PDF software.
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
PaperPort has a few quirks, but it is the only program of its kind that actually does what it claims to do. The power of it is so much more than they claim especially when it comes to trying to achieve a truly paperless office. With PDF editing built-in, it also saves considerable investment in other PDF editing programs.
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Usability
Foxit Software
Functionality and features it has as well as being quiet user friendly. It would be nice though if it wasn't laggy as often and had better page organizational tools. It often bogs down when this is being done or doesn't work properly when moving pages around and needed
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
For us, it's only focusing processes that we're already doing... creating folders, placing scanned files into those folders, then searching for and opening up those files later, as needed. It just helps us view everything in one place - very convenient. Further, being able to drag non-native files to their corresponding source app for editing (Word, Excel, etc) is pretty nice.
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Performance
Foxit Software
FoxitPhantom PDF integrates very well with the Microsoft Office products, which is where I found I use this the most. It performs about as well as can be expected, without any out of place latency. Whether it be merging, deleting, editing or rearranging pages, its performance holds up even with larger documents.
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Foxit Software
I haven't personally had interaction with the customer support from FoxitPhantom, however based on conversations I have had with members in the organization, I was given positive feedback. Their website has a lot of information and tutorials. If you need to contact them, they are quick to respond. User manuals are readily available.
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Foxit Software
I would say that when you want to get a bigger share of the market and take business from long time consolidated applications like Acrobat, you really need to try harder and give something more to the user to be able to change their mind and switch to Foxit. In our case licensing was an important factor and at the beginning we had a small learning curve with users asking how to open PDF files and what was that orange icon. The truth is that we as users accepted the new software happily because simply said: it does the job. After using Foxit I would not go back to Acrobat, I like better the connectivity, the simplicity and the way it manages the tabs.
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
I was ecstatic to see someone moving PaperPort away from Nuance (Those in my circle of friends refer to them as Nuisance). The lack of customer involvement by Nuance made finding answers to things that sometimes irritate a user to being downright frustrating. Maybe the purchase of Nuance by Microsoft will allow the company to focus more on the customer.
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Return on Investment
Foxit Software
  • We have cut our mailed AR by over 60% by exporting to foxit and emailing.
  • We have cleared an entire room to be used as additional office space by scanning in old documents.
  • The feature that allows you to directly type onto PDFs has increased our quality control by allowing us to highlight or add notes to important info.
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Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax)
  • Simple focus on organization of files
  • Efficient later, when searching for files
  • Convenient throughout the office, as we're all accessing a shared data store
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