TrustRadius Insights for Foxit PDF SDK are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Text Handling: Users have consistently praised the excellent text handling in the product, with many reviewers mentioning it as a standout feature. The ability to manipulate text by adding quick markup, highlighting, underlining, and strikethrough has been highly regarded by users.
Simplicity and Speed of Adding Rapid Markup: The simplicity and speed of adding rapid markup have been appreciated by numerous users. They found the process intuitive and convenient, allowing them to quickly annotate their PDF documents without any hassle.
Encryption and Password Protection: The high value that users place on the ability to encrypt data and set passwords for added protection is evident from their positive feedback. This feature has received praise for providing users with peace of mind when working with sensitive documents.
We use Foxit PDF as our main document editor for PDFs in our organization. Foxit PDF allows us to create, edit, and enhance PDFs much like how Adobe Acrobat does. Instead of using Adobe, we went with the lighter weight, more manageable option with Foxit PDFs. This works for all departments not demanding too much training and it gets the job done when mocking up proposals or carrying out e-signature requirements for documents.
Pros
Editing PDFs.
Electronically Signing Documents.
Creating handbooks and proposals.
Cons
Adding Text Fields to documents.
Adding and removing pages.
Sharing out to other applications.
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
We are a chemical production company and have tested several different providers. After lengthy testing and review, we decided to use Foxit PDF SDK in many offices enterprise-wide. Our staff loves Foxit and it is easy to use.
Pros
Converting all pdf document to Excel, Word.
You can edit, merge, convert and modify.
Easy and perfect solutions.
Cons
Nothing negative about it, at least my experience.
Likelihood to Recommend
We used Foxit PDF SDK, in the management and accounting departments, mainly to convert invoices and purchasing documents and vendor lists. It allows setting passwords when we shared documents between offices.
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Analyst in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
Our company uses the Foxit PDF SDK to work with PDF files. I collaborate with the production and manufacturing teams on various scripts, program material, and plan sheets. We mostly work with Word Docs, which we then convert to PDF after a project is completed. We may use the Foxit PDF SDK to add initials, annotations, and remarks, as well as interact with multiple files. We use Foxit to convert photos into pdfs in addition to papers. In actuality, it is a useful tool that performs admirably for us.
Pros
It offers excellent text handling.It's simple to add rapid markup.
It allows you to encrypt your data and set passwords for more protection.
Customization for web plugins are available.
Cons
PDF editing is cumbersome, and producing new PDFs from scratch is time-consuming.
It doesn't always do a good job at compressing files.
Likelihood to Recommend
The issue with the application not re-opening previously opened files is a major one for me, therefore I docked a point for that . When editing documents, it usually works well, but there are a few idiosyncrasies, such as the ability to add an extra line when changing a block of text or the inability to define page margins on the left and right. These peculiarities do not bother me, although they might be improved.
Back when we used this tool at the office we would use it to create PDFs either from scratch or pre existing templates. It would satisfy our digital needs when it came to editing these portable document files and make our staff lives easier whenever they had to create forms
Pros
Intuitive user interface
Many features
Editing documents
Cons
Costly
Renewing the license can be a pain
OCR can sometimes crash or it's slow
Likelihood to Recommend
This piece of software is very well suited for editing portable document files (PDFs), creating forms either from scratch or from templates available at your disposal. It is great for pulling text information from PDFs using its OCR feature and in this digital age long gone are the days when physical forms are needed.
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Employee in Finance and Accounting (51-200 employees)
Foxit PDF SDK is used by our organization to work with Pdf files. I work with programming and production teams to finalize different scripts, program content, and daily schedule sheets. Primarily, we work with Word Docs and then convert it to Pdf when something finalizes. Foxit PDF SDK helps us to add signatures, comments, and notes, and work with multiple files. Besides documents, we also convert images into pdfs by using Foxit. In all reality, it is an effective tool that does an excellent job for us. It would be fair to say that Foxit PDF SDK has enabled us to be more productive. Good job!
Pros
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.
Cons
There's one thing that bothers me a lot. Sometime people convert the text file to an image PDF which can not be altered or edited. I dunno if it is the fault of Foxit PDF SDK or it is just out of application's scope.
We previously used Adobe to do the same things and the transitioning to Foxit PDF SDK was not easy for some people. Nevertheless, it didn't give me a lot of trouble and I honed my skillset very easily. Moreover, the support is very active and they'd help you to solve the problem quickly.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well-suited for PDF documentation. If your business has the need to edit documents on daily basis, Foxit PDF SDK will be very beneficial. It offers quick conversions and a variety of tools to work with the documents. In my opinion, you should go for it if you have a large scale of work but if you're a student or a single person it can be a bit expensive.
Here at the company we use Foxit PDF SDK with all the features it offers. Some functionality is used for pdf preview, pdf signatures, pdf forms, pdf annotations and the best thing is you can use any of their platforms. As my very familiar work with pdf documents, I find the Foxit PDF SDK useful.
Pros
highlights that can be shared
pdf signature with personal signatures
signature save for future use
content review resources
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
The best thing I like about Foxit PDF SDK is that it is extremely lightweight. The community is another great place to find solutions where people improve their experiences using the tool. You look for solutions to almost every type of problem you encounter using this great tool.
Foxit PDF SDK is used to review the important PDF sent to the client using emails. It helps to identify the font, signature, and spacing issues in the PDF. The SDK can be easily integrated into the development environment which further helped to review the PDF in the web browser without installing any other software.
Pros
We can customize the pdf according to the need easily.
User can interact with the pdf easily over web without any plugins.
It provides a cross-platform pdf viewing solution and easy to integrate.
Cons
Loading time is more in case of large pdf which needs to be improved.
Pdf with comments added should be shown effectively.
Developer help topic pages needs improvement , the sites are little slow.
Likelihood to Recommend
When you need affordable, easily integrated, and well-maintained SDK for your pdf stuff; I would recommend the Foxit SDK. When your product users have to view, secure, and edit the documents online without installing any other plugins then Foxit SDK will be a good solution. It will be less appropriate to use this SDK when a user only has to view the PDF and doesn't want to do any other operations on this pdf document.
Currently, all of our papers are saved as PDFs using Foxit PhantomPDF. So far, we've gotten rid of more than 30 file cabinets. We also have a scan-and-shred mechanism in place, which scans and shreds all new documents as soon as they arrive (or almost all of them). Finally, we compress all of our huge files using the PDF optimizer.
Pros
Reducing the size of a PDF
Making one PDF out of a bunch of smaller ones
Creating a PDF file and then printing it
Cons
Their PDF editing is clunky, and creating from scratch is tedious
When it crashes, the crash reporting tool is broken
On a busy page, Edit Text sometimes struggle to grab the proper text
Likelihood to Recommend
It's ideal for small businesses trying to go paperless. It's inexpensive, simple to use, and provides a smooth conversion process. In my opinion, it's also a good option for firms who only want to convert their incoming and outgoing mail to attachments. This is where we began, and everything functioned perfectly from the get-go. Some of these characteristics may already exist in a larger system, therefore I don't think they'd be necessary for huge corporations.
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General Manager in Human Resources (1001-5000 employees)
I use Foxit PDF SDK to create and edit PDF forms, create fillable pdf forms, redact information from documents, and present slide shows. It allows me to share documents with customers in a format that everyone can utilize no matter if they use a pc or mac product.
Pros
Recognizes text (OCR)
Pleasant user interface
Create fillable forms
Edit existing text (in certain circumstances)
Cons
Doesn't always compress files well - there's not much difference in size between an original and a compressed file.
When editing text it sometimes separates text into cumbersome blocks.
Setting to re-open previous files when starting up the program doesn't always work. It will open the files for a little while but then it quits remembering to re-open the previously open files.
Likelihood to Recommend
For me, the issue with the program not re-opening previously open files is a big issue so I dropped a point on the scale for that. If that is not important to someone then I would likely give it a rating of 9. It typically does well when editing documents but there are some quirks such as creating an extra line when editing a block of text or not being able to set page borders on the left and right. These quirks are not a huge deal for me but could use some improvement.
