In the world of PDF editing and management, Adobe Acrobat has long been considered the industry standard. However, as businesses and individuals seek more flexible, feature-rich, and cost-effective solutions, alternatives have emerged that challenge Adobe’s dominance. Enter Foxit PDF Editor+ – a powerful contender that’s rapidly gaining traction as a comprehensive Adobe Acrobat alternative. Foxit Vs Adobe. Who is better?

In this blog post, we’ll dive deep into why Foxit PDF Editor+ is turning heads and winning over users from various industries. From its robust feature set to its user-friendly interface and competitive pricing, we’ll explore how Foxit stands toe-to-toe with Adobe Acrobat Pro and, in many areas, even surpasses it.

Whether you’re a small business owner looking to streamline your document workflows, a legal professional handling sensitive files, or a creative professional working with complex layouts, Foxit PDF Editor+ offers a suite of tools designed to meet your needs. We’ll examine key features like advanced AI-powered document analysis, enhanced security options, and seamless integration with popular productivity tools that set Foxit apart from the competition.

Join us as we unpack the capabilities of Foxit PDF Editor+ and discover why it’s becoming the go-to choice for those seeking a powerful, versatile, and cost-effective alternative to Adobe Acrobat.

Foxit Vs Adobe – Create and Export PDF

Features Foxit PDF Editor+ Adobe Acrobat Pro
📄 Create industry standard PDF files from virtually all PC applications and the clipboard ✓ ✓
📁 Create PDF from multiple files with different file types, scanner, blank page ✓ ✓
🌐 One-click PDF creation from IE, Edge, Chrome, and Firefox ✓ ✓
📊 One-step PDF creation from Microsoft® Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook ✓ ✓
🏷️ Create tagged PDF when creating from Microsoft® Word, Excel, PowerPoint ✓ ✓
📐 Create PDFs from Microsoft® Project and Vision ✓ ✓
📐 Convert DWG-files into 3D PDF ✓ ✗
📝 Create PDF from templates ✓ ✗
📚 Create PDF blank portfolio, or portfolio from webpage, scanner, folders, clipboard, etc. ✓ ✓
✅ PDF/A, E, and X file validation ✓ ✓
🔄 Convert PDF file to industry-standard PDF/A/E/X ✓ ✓
🖼️ Convert PDF to Microsoft® Office, HTML and image formats ✓ ✓
📄 Convert PDF to RTF/TXT files, accessible text, and XML 1.0 ✓ ✓
🖨️ Convert PDF to XPS ✓ ✗
☁️ Save PDF to Google Drive as gDocs, gSlides, or gSheets ✓ ✗
📤 Export selected area to Microsoft® Office, RTF, XML and HTML formats ✓ ✓
📎 Append created PDF to an existing file ✓ ✗

Foxit Vs Adobe – Edit PDF

Features Foxit PDF Editor+ Adobe Acrobat Pro
📝 Paragraph editing with automatic reflow and reformat ✓ ✓
✏️ Add and delete text, edit text (font, alignment, bullets and numbering, etc.) ✓ ✓
↔️ Move and resize paragraphs ✓ ✓
🔗 Link and join text ✓ ✗
🖼️ Move, resize, rotate, flip, cut/copy and paste, and delete graphic and image objects ✓ ✓
➕ Add graphic and image objects ✓ ✓
🎨 Advanced editing: Add shading object, edit graphic/shading/image objects, clipping effect, convert text to path, etc ✓ ✗
🔄 Reflow editing ✓ ✗
🔖 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. ✓ ✓
📚 Automatically create bookmarks from text (style/pattern) ✓ ✗
📥 Export and import bookmarks ✓ ✗
🔗 Add, edit and delete Cross Reference Links ✓ ✗
🌐 Recognize and remove web links ✓ ✓
✏️ Add, edit, delete and manage image, drawing and multimedia annotations ✓ ✓
📍 Create named positions ✓ ✓
🧊 Add a U3D or PRC 3D object ✓ ✓
Features Foxit PDF Editor+ Adobe Acrobat Pro
🖼️ Move, delete, or resize the 3D canvas ✓ ✓
💬 Comment and measurement on 3D objects ✓ ✓
🔍 Search and replace ✓ ✓
📝 Run spell-check on entire document and correct typos ✓ ✓
🖋️ Add, edit, delete and manage headers and footers, backgrounds, and watermarks on a single PDF file or in batch ✓ ✓
🔢 Bates Numbering ✓ ✓
📄 Manage pages in a document (insert, delete, extract, move, swap, interleaving, duplicate, replace, split, rotate, resize and crop pages) ✓ No interleaving, swap, resize
🔄 Reverse the page order in a few steps ✓ ✗
🔗 Merge multiple files into a single PDF document ✓ ✓
📚 Rearrange pages based on the order of the bookmarks ✓ ✗
📎 Insert pages of the current PDF into other files ✓ ✗
🗺️ Define a navigational path for articles in PDF that span multiple columns and/or across several pages ✓ ✓
⚡ PDF optimizer ✓ ✓
📚 Import as Layer/Merge Layers/Flatten Layers/Edit Layer Properties ✓ ✓
📁 Edit portfolios ✓ ✓
🔧 Actions and Custom Commands ✓ ✓
🧮 Accounting Calculator to quickly record calculations in an existing PDF file ✓ ✗

Foxit Vs Adobe – eSign PDF

Features Foxit PDF Editor+ Adobe Acrobat Pro
📝 Sign documents with Foxit legally-binding electronic signature service ✓ ✗
🖋️ Initiate signature request for a Foxit eSign workflow ✓ ✗
✅ Check document signing status in a Foxit eSign workflow ✓ ✗

Foxit Vs Adobe – Collaborate and Share PDF

PDF Editor Comparison – Extended Features
Features Foxit PDF Editor+ Adobe Acrobat Pro
📝 Add, manage, view and navigate document comments with familiar comment/markup tools (notes, text boxes, callouts, highlight, underline, strikeout, squiggly, typewriter, Stamps, etc.) and drawing tools (comment tools including lines, rectangles, pencil, oval, polygon, cloud, arrow) ✓ ✓
🔄 Initiate a Shared Review to include Foxit PDF Editor and Foxit PDF Reader users through email, a network folder, or a SharePoint workspace ✓ ✓
📊 Track documents that have been shared for review ✓ ✓
🔍 Search and highlight the searched words ✓ Only Search
📏 Measuring tool for distance, perimeter and area measuring ✓ ✓
📎 Attach a file as a comment ✓ ✓
🏷️ Organize and manage a library of stamps ✓ ✓
💬 Import/Export comments data and summarize comments ✓ ✓
📤 Export highlighted text ✓ ✗
🖍️ Area highlight ✓ ✗
✅ Tickmark ✓ ✗
📓 Evernote Integration ✓ ✗
☁️ Integrates with ECM systems and cloud services, including SharePoint, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, and Dropbox ✓ ✓
🔗 Integrates with ECM systems and cloud services, including Epona DMSforLegal, ndOffice, iManage, Alfresco, ShareFile, Citrix FileShare, Worldox, eDOCS DM, Documentum, Egnyte ✓ ✗

Foxit Vs Adobe – Scan and OCR PDF

PDF Editor Comparison – Scanning and OCR Features
Features Foxit PDF Editor+ Adobe Acrobat Pro
📄 Scan to create new PDF ✓ ✓
📎 Scan to insert into existing PDF ✓ ✓
🔍 Convert scanned/image-based PDFs to searchable or editable documents ✓ ✓
👁️ OCR parts of the scanned page ✓ ✗
🔎 Find OCR suspects and mark them as Not Text or edit the recognition results in batch ✓ No in batch
⚙️ Scan presets ✓ ✓
💾 Scan to Save Multiple Files ✓ ✓

Foxit Vs Adobe – Fill and Design PDF Forms

Features Foxit PDF Editor+ Adobe Acrobat Pro
📝 Form field recognition and form designer assistant (text fields, buttons, drop-down lists, check boxes, radio buttons, barcode, date, image and digital signature fields) ✓ ✓
📄 Fill in and save forms, including XFA form ✓ ✓
✍️ Digitally sign Acro forms and XFA forms ✓ ✓
📑 Page template ✓ ✓
✏️ Edit static XFA form ✓ ✓
🔄 Import/Export form data, reset form fields ✓ ✓
🔗 Combine form data (in pdf, ppdf, fdf, xfdf and xml format) to a CSV file ✓ ✓
🖥️ JavaScript support ✓ ✓
🔍 Intelligently detect the area to be filled in flat form ✓ ✓
🔄 Auto-completion support ✓ ✓

Foxit Vs Adobe – Protect and Sign PDF

Features Foxit PDF Editor+ Adobe Acrobat Pro
🧹 Removes undesired information from your document before publishing, like metadata, comments, hidden data from previous saves, hidden layers, overlapping objects, and more ✓ ✓
🔒 Add, edit, delete and manage password/certification secure encryption and permission controls to PDF files ✓ ✓
✍️ Quick PDF Sign using your handwritten signature or an image of your signatures ✓ ✓
🎨 Style customization for ink signatures ✓ ✗
📄 Place ink signature on multiple pages in the same position ✓ ✗
📨 Send, sign and save PDF documents using DocuSign, the industry’s most widely used eSignature solution ✓ ✗
🛡️ Add, edit, delete and manage security policies ✓ ✓
🖋️ Add, edit, delete and manage digital signatures to PDF files ✓ ✓
🎨 Customize the logo of digital signature ✓ ✗
📚 Place digital signature on multiple files in batch ✓ ✗
🕰️ Add trusted time stamps to digital signatures or documents ✓ ✓
🇪🇺 Support the verification of the European Union Trusted List digital signatures ✓ ✓
📜 Certify document and set permitted actions after certifying ✓ ✓
✂️ Permanently remove content from documents using redaction ✓ ✓
🔍 Customize a profile that specifies the text strings you want to search and redact ✓ ✗
🤖 AI-Based Redaction ✓ ✗
🖍️ Mark partial words for redactions after search ✓ ✓
⬜ Use the Whiteout feature to apply redaction with one-click to simply and securely erase any content to white background ✓ ✗
📊 RMS redaction in Microsoft® Word, PowerPoint, and Excel ✓ ✗
🔓 Microsoft® Active Directory Rights Management Services Decryption ✓ ✗
🔐 Microsoft® Active Directory Rights Management Services Encryption on a single file or in batch ✓ ✗
💧 Insert dynamic security watermarks in AD RMS protected files ✓ ✗
📝 Log the usage of RMS secured document such as opening, printing, editing ✓ ✗
🏷️ Classify and protect with labels in Microsoft® Azure Information Protection (AIP) ✓ ✗
🪟 Microsoft® Windows Information Protection (WIP) Support ✓ ✓
🛡️ Safe mode to control unauthorized actions and data transmissions ✓ ✓

Foxit Vs Adobe – View and Print PDF

Features Foxit PDF Editor+ Adobe Acrobat Pro
📑 Multi-tab viewing PDF documents ✓ ✓
👁️ View and navigate page thumbnails, bookmarks ✓ ✓
🔄 Reflow view ✓ ✓
📏 Ruler, Guides, Grids to help positioning objects in the PDF ✓ ✓
🔍 Text viewer, Magnifier ✓ ✗
⚖️ Line Weights and Toggle Ruler to help viewing PDF ✓ Only Line Weights
🔊 Read out loud ✓ ✓
🔀 Side-by-side document comparisons ✓ ✓
📊 View documents in Horizontal or Vertical tab groups ✓ ✗
📁 View and do more with PDF portfolios ✓ ✓
🧊 Display PRC type of 3D documents ✓ ✓
🔍 Search including bookmarks and comments ✓ ✓
🔖 Search only in bookmark ✓ ✗
📂 Search in all opened PDFs ✓ ✗
🔎 Allows the Windows indexing service and other Windows search technologies to index PDF files ✓ ✗
📚 Create and search a full-text index ✓ ✓
🖨️ Print PDF documents and forms ✓ ✓
📑 Print pages from selected bookmark(s) ✓ ✓
💬 Print with comments for efficient review ✓ ✓
📱 Touch screen support ✓ ✓
🔧 Allows users to create new tabs or customize current tabs in a ribbon based toolbar ✓ ✗
foxit chatgpt integration

Foxit Vs Adobe – ChatGPT Integration

Features Foxit PDF Editor+ Adobe Acrobat Pro
🤖 Chat with AI ✓ ✓
📊 Chat about document (analyse the document) ✓ ✗
🌐 Translate the text/document ✓ ✗
📝 Summarize the text & document ✓ ✓
🧠 Smart PDF Commands ✓ ✗
✍️ Enhance writing of the text ✓ ✗
📚 Define and clarify the text ✓ ✗
🔍 Fix spelling & grammar of the text ✓ ✗
💬 Foxit AI Chatbot (Support Center) ✓ ✗

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