Foxit PDF Editor
Commercial PDF editor with OCR, genuine redaction and eSign.
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Edit
Browse all edit toolsediting existing PDF content in the Foxit PDF Editor mobile edition, where the official user manual for version 11.2.0 documents editing an existing text object by placing the cursor in the text box and typing or removing text and changing the font, size, color and alignment, moving or deleting a text paragraph, and moving, resizing, rotating, replacing, exporting or deleting an existing image object, described in the manual as functionality available to subscribers
Protect
Browse all protect toolsprotecting PDF files in the Foxit PDF Editor mobile edition, where the official user manual for version 11.2.0 documents setting an open document password and switching on document restrictions that disable selected actions, with the same password required to remove security, protecting a file with a certificate on Android only using a certificate stored on the device, redacting text, images and pages, including by search, with the redaction applied permanently and not undoable, and encrypting with Microsoft Information Protection rights policy templates, with files protected that way saved as PPDF files
OCR
Browse all ocr toolsrecognising text in scanned PDFs and images with Foxit PDF Editor on Windows, where the official Foxit support article Performing OCR on a scanned document or image PDF, dated 14 August 2025 and headed Foxit PDF Editor for Windows, says running OCR on a scanned document or image based PDF makes the text searchable and editable, describes running Make Searchable (run OCR) while creating a PDF from a scanner through File Create From Scanner or Convert From Scanner, and for version 12 describes Convert then Recognize Text Current File with a dialog for the OCR language including a custom language entry, for the whole document or a page range, and for output as plain text, searchable PDF or editable text, where a second article dated 2 July 2024 says the multilanguage version of Foxit PDF Editor gets OCR language packs from the Foxit add-ons page, and where a third article dated 19 May 2025 records that PDFs already processed by third party OCR such as ABBYY FineReader can produce duplicate text layers and search results when OCR is applied again, with the article noting that support for versions 11 and 12 ended on 13 August 2025 and that version 14 is the one to upgrade to
Convert
Browse all convert toolsconverting files to PDF and PDFs to other formats in the Foxit PDF Editor mobile edition, where the official user manual for version 11.2.0 documents creating a PDF from Microsoft Word, Excel, PPT, TXT, HTML and image files and from a webpage URL, and exporting a PDF to Microsoft Word in doc or docx format, Excel, PowerPoint, text as plain or rich text, an image or HTML, with the converted file saved in the same folder as the source PDF file
Merge
Browse all merge toolsmerging multiple PDF files into a single PDF in the Foxit PDF Editor mobile edition, where the official user manual for version 11.2.0 documents choosing Merge PDFs, selecting the documents to combine and confirming the selection, optionally deleting an unwanted file before merging and optionally renaming the output, after which the app reports where the merged PDF was saved
Sign
Browse all sign toolssigning a PDF in the Foxit PDF Editor mobile edition, where the official user manual for version 11.2.0 documents creating a signature by drawing it, inserting an image of it from the device or capturing it with the camera and then placing it on a page, or on a subscription creating a signature with a digital certificate stored on the device by selecting the certificate and entering its password, and verifying a digital signature already present in a PDF through the Digital Signatures pane with options to view the certificate and add it to a trusted certificates list, with an applied signature described as no longer editable or movable and earlier signed versions accessible from the same pane
Compress
Browse all compress toolsreducing PDF file size through the Optimize PDF File feature in the Foxit PDF Editor desktop editions for Windows and Mac
Where your files are processed
Mixed - depends on version and feature
The vendor's own documentation separates them. On the device: Foxit PDF Editor installed on Windows and macOS. On their servers: Local AI on the user’s hardware, Smart Redact in the vendor cloud and other AI services. A single answer for the whole product would be wrong for one of them.
It depends on the feature. The installed editor works on files on the machine, and the vendor now documents Local AI running offline on the user’s hardware.
Smart Redact is separate and identified as Azure cloud processing with vendor-reported deletion rather than an independently verified retention result, and other AI services have their own paths. An aggregate requires-account answer cannot describe subscription, cloud and AI workflows together, so it is left unspecified rather than answered for the wrong workflow.
What it does
Foxit PDF Editor is a subscription or perpetual PDF application for Windows, macOS, web, iOS and Android. It edits text, images and pages, merges and splits, converts to and from Word, Excel and PowerPoint, runs OCR on scans, creates and fills forms, applies password protection and permissions, and redacts content.
Tiers matter: PDF Editor covers desktop and web, while PDF Editor+ adds the mobile apps and Smart Redact, which detects and removes hidden text and metadata automatically.
Best for
Organisations replacing Acrobat at scale that want genuine redaction, perpetual-licence options and centralised admin - including regulated teams that must strip personal data before sharing documents.
Worth knowing
Only US dollar prices were found. The perpetual licence excludes AI, Workspace, Smart Redact and cloud features, and the Smart Redact path sends documents to Foxit's Azure-hosted cloud for processing, so this is not uniformly an on-device tool.
Smart Redact’s FAQ specifies an initial 50-document allowance with further purchases, and Editor+ inclusion does not mean unlimited use; suggested redactions can be reviewed before application, so flawless automatic detection and independently proven removal are not implied. The editor no longer carries an HTTP API entry, because the vendor sells separate developer APIs.
Subscription and perpetual licence scope is recorded with the published 14-day trial, trial output stays unknown, multiple-region residency needs a service-specific source, and Compare is recognised in the taxonomy where supported.
Details, and where each comes from
Vendor statements, our own reading of their pages, and the things nobody has established yet, each answered separately. Where we have not confirmed something it says so rather than guessing, and a row nobody has established is greyed out.
- Versions covered
- Windows · macOS · Web · iOS · Android · API
- Website
- foxit.com
- Requires an account
- No
- Free tier
- No
- Watermark on trial output
- Not verified
- Maximum file size
- Not verified
- Batch processing
- Yes
- Data residency
- Multiple regions
- Open source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Licence
- Not verified
- Redaction
- Removes the content
- Programmatic access
- None
- Last availability check
- Responded in 653 ms 21 October 2026
Checked automatically by our own runner, not reported by the vendor. 100% of our last 30 checks got a response.
What the redaction verdict rests on
From the vendor's own documentation, read 22 September 2026. Not tested by us.
“Foxit’s Smart Redact uses AI to automatically identify and remove sensitive data including names, IDs, emails, and more, without manual tagging.”
What that does not establish
This page documents Smart Redact, which is an AI add-on sold as requiring Foxit PDF Editor+ separately. The manual redaction feature is documented elsewhere and is NOT established by this page - the tier note on the guide covers which editions include it.
Vendor wording, not a test. The page also claims "99.9% accuracy", which is a marketing figure with no method attached and should not be read as a measurement.
What the vendor says
Claims are labelled rather than repeated as fact. Where we have checked something ourselves, it says so and shows when. Checked means we read the vendor's own page and it says what we recorded - not that we tested the behaviour, unless the note says we did.
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“Foxit PDF Editor costs $129.99 per user per year, and Foxit PDF Editor+ costs $159.99 per user per year, with monthly billing available from $10.99.”
Checked by us - the source says this Read 22 September 2026
Confirmed verbatim: the sentence appears unaltered, and the four figures in it - $129.99, $159.99 and the $10.99 monthly entry - are repeated in a second paragraph that also explains what the extra $30 buys. That is the most useful thing on the page for a buyer and the claim omits it: Editor+ adds mobile apps for iOS and Android, Foxit eSign Essentials with 150 envelopes a year, and AI-powered Smart Redact.
Four further facts are stated but are not in the claim: a perpetual licence for Foxit PDF Editor 14 at a one-time $209.99 per user, volume discounts of up to 30% at 30 licences or more, 300 free AI credits a month on every plan, and a 14-day trial with no credit card. This is a pricing entry where the claim is accurate and the record is more useful than the claim.
No purchase was made and no control was run.
Standing: Re-read and matched byte for byte
Check it yourself: the source, the SHA-256, and how we checked
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- the text a browser renders
- SHA-256
- 5d7c6f20cf5cb3d125fda73d816e887e938faee22c0c1df171cd0e497ab579f7
How we checked
Re-verified verbatim on 2026-09-22: https://www.foxit.com/pdf-editor/pricing/ re-rendered in headless Chrome with scripts/render-page.mjs and the claim's wording found in the rendered text. Originally verified on 2026-09-21. sourceHash is the SHA-256 of the re-rendered text, held as rv-www-foxit-com-pdf-editor-pricing-1406bcb0.txt.
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“99% AI accuracy-no missed data, no manual risk.”
Checked by us - the source says this Read 21 September 2026
Confirmed verbatim: "99% AI accuracy-no missed data, no manual risk." is the subtitle of a section headed "Precision You Can Trust". The finding is that the same page carries a different number for the same AI in another section - "Achieve Unmatched Efficiency with 99.9% Accuracy Using AI" - and a third formulation, "Over 99% AI Accuracy", inside the page's localisation strings.
So the page states 99%, 99.9% and "over 99%" for one feature, and a reader has no way to tell whether these describe the same measurement, different measurements, or drift between copy revisions. "No missed data" is also an absolute that a 99% figure cannot support: one document in a hundred is the stated error rate.
Recorded as the vendor's wording, with all three figures as written.
Standing: Re-read and matched once per-response tokens were masked
Check it yourself: the source, the SHA-256, and how we checked
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- the raw HTTP response
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- b9e346a52fc51a897ae74b27980eb67c064d637e2bd524a254a4e2e73ffd3990
How we checked
The rendered page contains the sentence as a heading in one section and a different figure in another, so the claim was checked twice: against the rendered text of https://www.foxit.com/ai/smart-redact/ (13058 bytes) and against the raw HTML response (1786735 bytes saved and hashed) to establish where each figure sits. sourceHash is the SHA-256 of the raw response.
Each claim is quoted from the vendor's own pages. This section describes what we have and have not checked - it is not a judgement about anyone.
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