We all need to create professional looking PDF documents and forms for tasks such as developing personal documents, implementing workgroup collaboration, designing company forms, producing company collateral, finalizing agreements, applying digital signatures, or document archiving. Award winning Foxit PhantomPDF™ provides the right features at the right price, allowing you to produce great looking PDF document and forms quickly, affordably, and securely. Foxit PhantomPDF is the perfect solution for home/home offices, small and medium sized businesses, and large enterprises. Foxit PhantomPDF comes in three versions to fit the diverse use cases that different users require.

Great for home/home office or business users, Foxit PhantomPDF Express helps you create standards compliant PDF files from hundreds of files types up to 3 times faster than with competitor tools. You can create PDF directly from Microsoft® Word, PowerPoint®, and Excel® with one button click or batch create PDF documents from other common formats. Plus, you can use the convenient annotation tools to add comments, highlights, bookmarks, and more.
Ideal for any size business, Foxit PhantomPDF Standard expands upon PhantomPDF Express by allowing you to edit the text contents directly. After you are done editing, PhantomPDF Standard robust security features keep your business documents safe, including password and certificate encryption, and digital signature. The form design tools lets you develop forms, import tools allow data to be automatically imported into forms, and custom JavaScript actions allow increased forms customization.
Robust for the needs of businesses, Foxit PhantomPDF Business expands upon PhantomPDF Standard by providing the security that helps companies meet regulatory compliance and corporate governance for their important documents and archives and to ensure documents don't change after they are approved. You can extend the usage control benefits of Microsoft Windows Server® Active Directory® Rights Management Service to all your PDF documents; allowing author control of document features within each PDF, where you can certify documents and set permitted actions after certifying.
To help determine which PhantomPDF solution is right for you, please refer to the following table outlining the capabilities of all three products.
| Feature Comparison Sheet | Express | Standard | Business | |
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| PDF Create and Convert | ||||
| Create industry standard PDF files from virtually all PC applications, popular image formats, and the clipboard | ||||
| Create ISO standard PDF/A files , and embed fonts | ||||
| Create PDF from multiple files and file types, scanner, blank page | ||||
| One-Step PDF Creation from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint | ||||
| Convert PDF to Microsoft® Office, RTF, HTML, text, and image formats | ||||
| PDF Viewing Features | ||||
| Capable of viewing all PDF types | ||||
| Validate digital signature | ||||
| PDF/A validation | ||||
| Compare documents | ||||
| Read out loud | ||||
| PDF Editing Features | ||||
| 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. |
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| Add , edit, delete and manage image and multimedia annotations | ||||
| Add , edit, delete and manage header and footer, background, watermark | ||||
| Add, edit, delete and manage text and path objects | ||||
| Move, resize, rotate, cut, copy and paste graphic and image objects | ||||
| Manage pages in a document (reorder, new, insert, extract, crop, rotate and delete pages), insert pages from scanner | ||||
| Reorder pages from dropping and dragging thumbnail in page thumbnail panel | ||||
| OCR text recognition to create searchable and selectable documents | ||||
| PDF optimizer | ||||
| Redaction | ||||
| Advanced PDF editor | ||||
| High compression when creating PDF from scanner | ||||
| Bates Numbering | ||||
| PDF Comment Features | ||||
| Add, manage, view and navigate document comments | ||||
| Familiar comment, markup tools (notes, text boxes, callouts, highlight, underline, strikeout, squiggly, cross-out, typewriter, Stamps, etc. ) and drawing tools (comment tools including lines, rectangles, pencil, oval, polygon, cloudy, arrow) | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| PDF Forms Features | ||||
| Fill in and save forms, including XFA form |
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| Import/Export form data, reset form fields | ||||
| JavaScript support | ||||
| Draw and edit form controls (text fields, buttons, drop-down lists, check boxes, radio buttons and digital signature fields) | ||||
| Edit static XFA form | ||||
| PDF Security Features | ||||
| Add, edit, delete and manage passwords secure encryption and permission controls to PDF files | ||||
| Add, edit, delete and manage digital signatures to PDF files | ||||
| Add, edit, delete and manage security policies | ||||
| Add, edit, delete and manage certification secure encryption and permission controls to PDF files | ||||
| Certify document and set permitted actions after certifying | ||||
| Microsoft® Active Directory® RMS protector | ||||