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    Foxit PDF SDK

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AFoxit PDF SDK offers high performance pdf libraries to help developers build pdf technology. According to the vendor, key features include: Render PDFs: High performance PDF libraries to render PDF pages, page objects, annotations, and forms the way they were intended to be viewed: sharp, clear, accurate, and easy to read. Allows applications to view, zoom in, zoom out, and print PDF documents and forms. Reflow: PDF is a fixed-layout flat document format, it cannot…

    $3,000

    per platform/per year

    OutSystems

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/AThe OutSystems Platform is a Platform-as-a-Service solution for rapid delivery of responsive web and mobile applications. It includes functionalities required to develop, deploy, manage and change web and mobile applications. It is targeted at the delivery of enterprise applications that require integration with backend systems, complex business rules and logic, usable interfaces and flexibility to change. It can be deployed in the cloud, on-premises or in hybrid environments.

    $4,000

    per month

    Pricing
    Foxit PDF SDKOutSystems
    Editions & Modules
    Licensing PDF SDK
    $3,000.00
    per platform/per year
    Foxit.NET PDF SDK
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    Basic
    $4,000.00
    per month
    Pro
    $10,000.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Foxit PDF SDKOutSystems
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Foxit PDF SDKOutSystems
    Considered Both Products
    Foxit Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    81%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
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    Would buy again
    52 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    44 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    52 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    33 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    40 Answers
    Features
    Foxit PDF SDKOutSystems
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Foxit PDF SDK and OutSystems
    Feature
    Foxit PDF SDK
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    Ratings
    OutSystems
    7.9
    54 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Visual Modeling00 Ratings5.251 Ratings
    Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings8.052 Ratings
    Platform Security00 Ratings6.251 Ratings
    Platform User Management00 Ratings8.049 Ratings
    Reusability00 Ratings9.954 Ratings
    Platform Scalability00 Ratings9.951 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Foxit PDF SDKOutSystems
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (17 ratings)
    8.0
    (131 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.5
    (44 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Foxit PDF SDKOutSystems
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Foxit Software
    Where FoxIt suites best is if you need an alternative to the big-name PDF editors. It's pretty easy to use and it's comparable to Adobe or any other document editor. It is best used when mocking up proposals for work, creating employee handbooks, putting together offer letters, and essentially any other important document. This is not suitable for creating brochures or pamphlets.
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    OutSystems
    Well suited for internal exposure of business processes (invoicing, API layer to other systems, customer maintenance etc), whether a UI is required or not. Not so well suited for full fledged web design. An OutSystems application must serve one particular business need, if gets too much functionalities and responsibilities it tends to get chaotic and complex.
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    Pros
    Foxit Software
    • It is a very cool development kit to integration different PDF functions.
    • It is user-friendly and convenient to work with.
    • It has great functionality for text. For example: adding quick markup, highlighting the text, underlining, and doing strikethrough, and adding signatures is pretty easy.
    • It offers to do encryption and add passwords for security.
    • Great search capability that helps finding the text without hassle.
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    OutSystems
    • Developing end user interfaces with ease and speed with a modern look and feel.
    • First class low code development to reduce time to market with visual programming
    • Their technical support team is fast and responsive. We've yet to have any issues they could not resolve.
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    Cons
    Foxit Software
    • Combine multiple PDFs into one PDF
    • File explorer preview is not good
    • In the C# SDK, which is a wrapper of native C++ code. We need to be extra careful in coding and protecting the calls, because it can be very easy to crash the application in case of errors.
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    OutSystems
    • Price – The licensing model of OutSystems is very expensive and not suitable for small scale developments. This is offset by the time to develop and stability for larger scale developments
    • Flexibility on PaaS version – The PaaS hosted version of OutSystems limits your flexibility to access the front end and backend database systems which can significantly restrict your options on high data volume developments or where anything requiring slightly out of the ordinary access is required
    • Same price for PaaS and self-hosted system. Licensing model dictates that you pay the same price even when you host the system on your own hardware which effectively means you pay more to manage the infrastructure yourself
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Foxit Software
    No answers on this topic
    OutSystems
    We are very happy with OutSystems and our developers deliver good work. OutSystems lets us build new software on a regulare (2 weekly) basis, which is highly flexible and adjustable. Even without very much experience, our developers manage to build usefull software, which is working a lot better than our previous (legacy) software.
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    Usability
    Foxit Software
    Our whole takeoff department uses the Foxit PDF SDK. To read plan files, produce pdf files, and take notes, we utilize it in conjunction with other tools. We may utilize the Foxit PDF SDK to read, edit, markup, print, and produce PDF files for internal use or to distribute to clients. Some of our users adore the software, but others choose to use alternative programs because they believe Foxit PDF SDK is too restrictive.
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    OutSystems
    OutSystems has a feature in which we can develop a functionality in a application and can use that functionality in another application without developing it again. That is main plus point for the development team so they can work with different functionalities rather focusing on the same thing again and again. if we want to make any change on the user side then we can make it live with just the deployment using the service center.
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    Performance
    Foxit Software
    I rated this software very high on performance because it is really very quick on my Windows system. It can create any type of PDF files in seconds. It also gives good upload speed when I try to modify my documents for inserting digital signature space. It also gives very good encryption speed to secure my documents.
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    OutSystems
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Foxit Software
    I would give it this rating because I personally have never had to contact support regarding Foxit PDF SDK or anything I am trying to do within the program. As I mentioned before, it is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. I think the program in itself lends support to the user because it is so user-friendly and has an easy to use interface.
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    OutSystems
    The tech support is very reachable. Usually by [email] from but also by phone if needed. We had some difficulties at the start with understanding "what our machine was doing" under high performance load. After some good sessions understanding our needs they delivered good solutions for our problems we had in the beginning.
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    In-Person Training
    Foxit Software
    No answers on this topic
    OutSystems
    Excellent material full of hands on that improve the understanding of the platform.
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    Online Training
    Foxit Software
    No answers on this topic
    OutSystems
    The online training material is well designed and explanations are step by step, helping trainees to understand and follow each exercise and new concept.
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    Implementation Rating
    Foxit Software
    No answers on this topic
    OutSystems
    In a large company, patiently and consistently work the behind the scenes politics with business and IT partners across the firm.
    This is transformational - you will need a solid set of key business partners to lock arms together to move forward.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Foxit Software
    Adobe Sign can be really frustrating and difficult to log into, renew subscription, and other background functions. Tech support is between useless and non-existent. On the other hand, there is better control over when recipients have been contacted. Overall, Foxit PDF SDK is a much better product, especially for smaller businesses or ones which don't use it consistently every day, year-round (if that's you, you will get used to Adobe, and it will be less annoying.)
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    OutSystems
    I tried to use WordPress with some success. Also looked at Joomla. But when I saw OutSystems I knew I had been wasting my time there. It takes you longer to get going with OutSystems - but even I as a novice realized immediately that Outsystems is simply in another league. Outsystems is powerful. (Can you compare WordPress and Joomla to Outsystems - I don't think so).
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    Return on Investment
    Foxit Software
    • Saves time by being able to edit text in pdf instead of copy/paste into a .doc and then re-formatting the whole thing
    • Able to create fillable forms that are easy to use and to send out to customers
    • Bargain compared to Adobe product
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    OutSystems
    • The ease of use of the OutSystems development process has been the biggest ROI for us. We have developed our Framework product and maintained/enhanced it with only 4 workers.
    • OutSystems has enhanced their product very significantly over the last 4 years. They have gone from a simple to use tool to a very simple to use sophisticated tool that covers the standard mainframe-based computing apps and the apps used on handheld mobile devices all using the same basic set of development tools.
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