Foxit PDF Editor for Windows

User Guide

  • Introduction
  • Get Started
  • Read
    • Open PDFs
    • Save PDFs
    • Close a PDF
    • Export PDFs
    • View PDFs
      • Multi-tab Reading & Single Document Reading
      • Read Multiple PDF Files in the Parallel View
      • Page through a document
      • View PDF Portfolios
      • Adjust Page View
      • View Mode
      • Read Out Loud
        • What’s Read Out Loud?
        • Set Reading and Speech Preferences
        • Activate or deactivate Read Out Loud
        • Read a PDF Out Loud
        • Read PDF Form Fields Out Loud
        • Control Reading
      • Rulers, Guides, Grids, Line Weights, and Cursor Coordinates
      • Toggle Ruler
    • Work on 3D Content
    • Select & Copy
    • Search & Index in PDFs
    • Compare PDF Files
    • Word Count
  • Create
  • Edit
  • Organize
  • Comment
  • Share PDFs
  • Forms
  • Security
  • Signature
  • Accessibility
  • Foxit Admin Console
  • Print
  • Foxit AI Assistant (Available in Subscription Releases and Certain Regions)
  • Appendices

Read a PDF Out Loud

  • Navigate to the page that you want to read out. 
  • Choose View > Read > Read > Read Current Page or Read from Current Page. 

Tip: If you need to read the text in the comments while reading a PDF out loud, please make sure you have checked Read comments option in the Speech preferences.