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

What’s Read Out Loud?

Read Out Loud is a Text-to-Speech (TTS) tool. It reads the text in a PDF aloud, including the text in comments and alternate text descriptions for images, tables, and fillable fields. Text is read based on the order of the page content. With this feature, you can obtain information without viewing the pages, helping to effectively relief eyestrain. It also enables you to view other materials while listening to the content. 

Read Out Loud uses the available voices installed on your system. If you have SAPI 5 voices installed from text-to-speech or language applications, you can choose them to read your PDFs.

Note: Read Out Loud isn’t a screen reader, it may not be available in some operating systems.