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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
One-click PDF creation from IE, Chrome, and Firefox
One-click PDF creation from Microsoft Project
Create a RMS redaction protected PDF files within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
PDF A, E, and X validation
Create PDF from multiple files and file types, scanner, blank page
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 Office Visio
Convert PDF to Microsoft® Office, HTML and image formats
Export selected area to Microsoft® Office, RTF, HTML formats
Export PDF to RTF/TXT files, accessible text, and XML 1.0
Export to XPS
Create PDF/A compliant files from other file formats
Convert PDF file to industry standard PDF A/E/X
Evernote integration-attach a PDF to a note
Create PDF portfolios
Export PDF to word and keep the fonts and layouts intact - including bullets and tables
Keep layers when combining multiple PDF files
Merge multiple files into a single PDF document
Apply security setting when creating
Scan presets
Scan to Save Multiple Files
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Create new tabs or customize current tabs
Microsoft office 2013 style ribbon toolbar
Touch screen support
Multi-tab browsing
View PDF portfolios
Print pages from selected bookmark(s)
Open and decrypt RMS encrypted PDF documents
Side-by-side document comparisons
Text Viewer, Magnifier, and Loupe Tool
Read out loud
View and navigate page thumbnails,bookmarks
Grids and custom drawing guides to help positioning objects in the PDF
Search including bookmarks and comments
Allows the Windows indexing service and other Windows search technologies to index PDF files
Create and search a full-text index
Reflow view
Create named positions
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Paragraph edit with automatic reflow and reformat
Reflow editing
Search and replace
Edit portfolios
Recognize and remove web links
Run spell-check on your entire document and correct typos
Cut, delete and move multiple bookmarks at a time
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
Add , edit, delete and manage image annotations and multimedia annotations
Add, edit, delete and manage headers and footers, backgrounds, and watermarks on a single PDF file or in batch.
Edit and manage headers and footers, backgrounds, and watermarks
Define a navigational path for articles in PDF that span multiple columns and/or across several pages
Add, edit, delete and manage 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
Link and Join text
Reorder pages from dropping and dragging thumbnail in page thumbnail panel
OCR text recognition to create searchable and selectable documents
Convert scanned/image-based PDFs to editable files
Find OCR suspects and edit the recognition result
Find OCR suspects and mark them as Not Text or edit the recognition results in batch.
PDF optimizer
Advanced PDF editing: edit images, add object shading, convert text to path, etc
High compression when creating PDFs from scanners or optimizing PDFs
Bates Numbering
Insert pages of the current PDF into other files
Add custom properties
Action Wizard
Allow users to change the page size
Delete and reorder layer
Import as Layer/Merge Layers/Flatten Layers/Edit Layer Properties
Reverse the page order in a few steps
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Initiate a Shared Review to include PhantomPDF, Foxit Reader, and MobilePDF users through email, a network folder, or a SharePoint workspace
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)
Search and highlight the searched words
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
Highlight area
Export highlighted text
Print with comments for efficient review
Track documents that have been sent out for review
Evernote integration
Integrates with ECM systems and cloud services, including SharePoint, Epona DMSforLegal, ndOffice, iManage, Alfresco, ShareFile, Enterprise Connect, Worldox, eDOCS DM, Documentum, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, Egnyte, and Dropbox
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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
Import/Export form data, reset form fields
JavaScript support
Draw and edit form controls (text fields, buttons, drop-down lists, check boxes, radio buttons, digital signature, barcode, date and image fields)
Edit static XFA form
Digitally sign Acro forms and XFA forms
Combine forms data (in pdf, ppdf, fdf, xfdf and xml format) to a CSV file
Page template
Intelligently detect the area to be filled in flat form
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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 hand written signature or an image of your signatures
Place ink signature on multiple pages on 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
Place digital signature on multiple files in batch
Add trusted time stamps to digital signatures or documents
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
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 Service Decryption
Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Service Encryption
Apply RMS Protection to PDF files in batch to process multiple PDF files.
Insert dynamic security watermarks in AD RMS protected files
Log the usage of RMS secured document such as opening, printing, editing
Search and remove hidden information
Microsoft Windows Information Protection (WIP) Support
Classify and protect with labels in Microsoft Azure Information Protection (AIP)
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Convert PDF to ConnectedPDF
Convert other formats to cPDF when creating to PDF
Clone a document
Enable document enforced tracking
Track any access to cPDF documents
Show usage data in document homepage
Register and upload a new version of cPDF document
Send update notification when registering a new version
Enable non-Foxit application to receive update notification
Online ConnectedPDF protection
Permission configuration
Dynamically approve and revoke document permission
Dynamically request document permission and response to the changes of document permission
Join Connected Review
Initiate/End Connected Review
Document Locator and request
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Accessibility full check and check report
Fix failed parts after accessibility check
Touch up reading order to add and edit tag
Autotag document and tag report