Foxit PDF Editor Feature Comparison

Top Features

Create and convert PDFs from/to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, XPS, RTF/TXT, HTML, XML, and images

(Partially Supported for Mac)

Partially Supported

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac(Partially Supported) iOS(Partially Supported) Android(Partially Supported) Cloud(Partially Supported)

Recognize text in scanned PDFs via OCR, and optimize and compress PDFs

Partially Supported

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Edit text, images, and paths in PDFs

Partially Supported

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows(Partially Supported) Mac iOS(Partially Supported) Android(Partially Supported) Cloud(Partially Supported)

Add comments to PDFs to annotate and share PDFs

Partially Supported

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud(Partially Supported)

Compare, merge, and split PDFs

Partially Supported

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS(Partially Supported) Android(Partially Supported) Cloud

Rotate, delete, extract, and rearrange pages

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud(Partially Supported)

Add headers, footers, watermarks, or page numbers to PDFs

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac Cloud

Bates Numbering

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac Cloud

Fill & Sign PDFs using handwritten signatures or an image of your signatures

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud

eSign PDFs with Foxit legally-binding electronic signature service

(Requires separate Foxit eSign purchase)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows(Requires separate Foxit eSign purchase) Windows(Requires separate Foxit eSign purchase) Mac(Requires separate Foxit eSign purchase) iOS Android Cloud

Protect PDFs with passwords and certificates

Partially Supported

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS(Partially Supported) Android Cloud

Accessibility full check and fix failed parts

Partially Supported

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows(Partially Supported) Mac

Permanently remove content from documents using redaction

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud

Action wizard

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows

Manage licenses on-premises or on a Foxit-hosted cloud in Foxit Admin Console

Only cloud hosted version

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac Cloud(Only cloud hosted version)

24/7 live support

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud

Create ISO standard PDF/A files and embed fonts

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Create industry standard PDF files from virtually all PC applications and the clipboard

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Create PDF from multiple files with different file types, scanner, blank page

Exclude scanner

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud(Partially Supported)

One-click PDF creation from IE, Edge, Chrome, and Firefox

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

One-Step PDF Creation from Microsoft^® Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

(Not Supported for Mac)

(Except for Outlook)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Create tagged PDF when creating from Microsoft^® Word, Excel, PowerPoint

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Create a RMS redaction protected PDF files within Microsoft^® Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Create PDFs from Microsoft^® Project and Visio

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows

Convert DWG-files into 3D PDF

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows

Apply security setting when creating PDF files

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Create PDF from templates

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud

Create PDF blank portfolio, or portfolio from webpage, scanner, folders, clipboard, etc.

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

PDF A, E, and X validation

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Convert PDF file to industry standard PDF A/E/X

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Mac

Convert PDF to Microsoft^® Office, XPS, HTML and image files

PPT, Excel, Docx, HTML, JPG formats only

Exclude XPS

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS(Partially Supported) Android(Partially Supported) Cloud(Partially Supported)

Convert PDF to RTF/TXT files, accessible text, and XML 1.0

RTF/TXT formats only

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac(Partially Supported) iOS(Partially Supported) Android(Partially Supported) Cloud(Partially Supported)

Save PDF to Google Drive as gDocs, gSlides, or gSheets

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac Cloud

Export selected area to Microsoft^® Office, RTF, XML and HTML formats

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Keep layers when combining multiple PDF files

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Merge multiple files into a single PDF document

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud

Scan to Create Multiple Files

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Scan presets

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Append created PDF to an existing file

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Multi-tab viewing PDF documents

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

View and navigate page thumbnails, bookmarks

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud

Text Viewer, Magnifier and Loupe Tool

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac Cloud

Reflow View

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows iOS Android

Reverse View

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Night Mode, Full Screen, AutoScroll

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud(Partially Supported)

Ruler, Guides, Grids to help positioning objects in the PDF

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac Cloud(Partially Supported)

Line Weights and Toggle Ruler to help viewing PDF

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Read out loud

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows iOS Android

Word Count

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Side-by-side document comparisons

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android

View documents in Horizontal or Vertical tab groups

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

View and do more with PDF portfolios

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Display PRC type of 3D documents

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Search including bookmarks and comments, or in all opened PDFs

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud

Allows the Windows indexing service and other Windows search technologies to index PDF files

(Not applicable for Mac)

Not applicable

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac(Partially Supported)

Create and search a full-text index

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Pattern Search

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Print PDF documents and forms

Print PDF files only

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS(Partially Supported) Android(Partially Supported) Cloud(Partially Supported)

Print pages from selected bookmark(s)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac Cloud

Print with comments for efficient review

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Touch screen support

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Allows users to create new tabs or customize current tabs in a ribbon based toolbar

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Paragraph editing with automatic reflow and reformat

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android

Add and delete text, edit text (font, alignment, bullets and numbering, etc.)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud(Partially Supported)

Move and resize paragraphs

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud

Move, resize, rotate, flip, cut/copy and paste, and delete graphic and image objects

move, resize, rotate, delete image objects only

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS(Partially Supported) Android(Partially Supported) Cloud

Advanced editing: Add and edit graphic, shading and image objects, clipping effect, convert text to path, etc

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Mac Cloud

Reflow editing

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows

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.

Add ordinary bookmarks and few actions for hyperlinks only

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS(Partially Supported) Android(Partially Supported) Cloud

Export and import bookmarks

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Add, edit and delete Cross Reference Links

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Recognize and remove web links

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac Cloud

Add , edit, delete and manage image, drawing and multimedia annotations

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud

Create named positions

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac Cloud

Add a U3D or PRC 3D object

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows

Move, delete, or resize the 3D canvas

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows

Comment and measurement on 3D objects

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Search and replace

Search only

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Run spell-check on entire document and correct typos

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Add, edit, delete and manage headers and footers, backgrounds, and watermarks on a single PDF file or in batch

Partially Supported

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac(Partially Supported) Cloud(Partially Supported)

Bates Numbering

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Mac

Manage pages in a document (insert, delete, extract, reverse, rearrange, move, swap, interleaving, duplicate, replace, split, rotate, resize and crop pages)

(Partially Supported for Mac)

Insert, delete, extract, reverse, rearrange, move, swap, duplicate, replace, split, rotate and crop pages only

Insert/delete/copy/ paste/extract/reorder rotate pages only

Insert/delete/extract/ reorder/rotate pages only

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS(Partially Supported) Android(Partially Supported) Cloud

Insert pages of the current PDF into other files

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac Cloud

Rearrange pages based on the order of the bookmarks

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Define a navigational path for articles in PDF that span multiple columns and/or across several pages

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows

Link and Join text

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Convert scanned/image-based PDFs to searchable or editable documents

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Find OCR suspects and mark them as Not Text or edit the recognition results in batch.

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

PDF optimizer

Reduce file size only

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS(Partially Supported) Android(Partially Supported) Cloud

High compression when creating PDFs from scanners or optimizing PDFs

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Mac

Import as Layer/Merge Layers/Flatten Layers/Edit Layer Properties

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Mac Cloud

Delete and reorder layer

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac Cloud

Edit portfolios

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac

Action wizard

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows

Edit PDF file properties

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud

Accounting Calculator to quickly record calculations in a existing PDF file

(Not Supported for Mac)

Pro + Windows or Mac Pro Windows Windows Mac iOS Android Cloud

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