You can even choose for the software to automatically perform an OCR pass automatically, enabling you to edit as soon as the process is done. Regarding the scanner option, it’s great that Foxit PDF Editor can connect directly to your device. The latter sounded interesting but it looks like it might only work for simple pages: we tried converting, and only got page after page of our ‘We Value Your Privacy’ popup.

You have options to convert from an existing file, from your scanner, based on copied data stored in your computer’s clipboard, or even convert a webpage to PDF. This conversion process works in the opposite direction too, allowing you to convert files like Word to PDF. This level of flexibility is great should you need to extract the content of the PDF to create something new based on it. You can also convert RTF, plain text, HTML and even various image formats. Convert data from one file format to anotherįoxit PDF Editor can also help you convert documents into other file formats, such as Office docs like PDF to Word, PDF to PowerPoint, and PDF to Excel.The conversion process from a webpage to PDF sounds great, but it failed us badly (Image credit: Foxit)

Bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, and so on, are also available, as are options to alter character, line and paragraph spacing, and character scale.įoxit PDF editor pretty much covers most, if not all, the functions you’d need to make your necessary changes. You’re able to change the font, its size, color and alignment. When it comes to text tools, you have the basics you’d expect from any word processor. Once done, go back to your editing, and you’ll be able to write seamlessly through the boxes. Select it, then click (in order) the boxes you wish to connect together. However, Foxit has solved that problem with its ‘Link & Join Text’ feature. You might notice that the main body of the document will likely be split up into multiple such text boxes, making editing a bit of a pain, as words won’t automatically flow from one box to another. This also happens when you alter the content of these boxes. The text contained within one will automatically reflow as you alter its size. You’ll find your PDF is divided into text boxes, which can be selected, moved around and resized at will.

Should you need to make changes to an existing PDF, you need to take a trip to the ‘Edit’ section - which is actually automatically selected once you open a document.

Almost as easy as using a regular word processor.

Connect the various text boxes together to create a seamless flow when editing their content (Image credit: Foxit)

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