Insights, tutorials, and updates from the Foxit PDF SDK engineering team.
If your business makes frequent use of PDF files in your client-facing applications, ensure their accessibility for all types of users. Individuals who are visually impaired or have difficulty reading, for example, find text-to-speech web applications invaluable. The Foxit PDF SDK is a lightweight, powerful library that can help you add read aloud support for [...]
Powerfully Enhanced Software Developer Kit Delivers Fortified Security, Refined Rendering Control, Smarter OCR, Advanced Regulations Compliance, and More FREMONT, Calif., September 16, 2025 – Foxit, a leading provider of innovative PDF and eSignature products and services, helping knowledge workers to increase their productivity and do more with documents, today announced the release of Foxit PDF [...]
If you’ve ever tried to generate a PDF directly, you know it’s a very complicated format to work with. You have to layout all of the content yourself, it has a weird object indexing system, and it has a special format for everything you add. Adobe’s PDF format reference is almost a thousand pages long! [...]
Software has revolutionized the signing, storage, and manipulation of paper forms by converting a paper process into a digital one. PDFs are perhaps the most widely used format for digital versions of paper forms. Modern PDF technologies like the Foxit SDK even allow users to fill out forms online that are embedded inside PDFs, then [...]
The ability to scan direct to PDF on your mobile is a function that can revolutionize your document workflows. We’ve detailed how to do this with Android here and in this article, we will be doing the same with iOS.The guide below describes how you can use Foxit PDF SDK for iOS (free 30 day trial available here) to quickly create an app with powerful scanning functionality. By taking multiple photos or by selecting multiple photos from an album, a PDF can be generated with just one click. You can use this project to integrate scanning into your own environment and make this a powerful addition to your mobile application.
Everyone knows what a signature is—it’s how you sign your name at the end of an official document, typically to enter a contract. But what is a _digital_ signature? It’s a digitally generated representation of a person’s identity. This can either be through an image of a person’s actual signature, or it can be a [...]
Sometimes, Ctrl-F just doesn’t cut it. If you’re working with a large collection of documents, trying to find specific phrases or locate sources in metadata can be a nightmare. Thankfully, full-text search is a feature that scans an entire collection and provides detailed results. If you’re working with PDFs, you can use the Foxit PDF [...]
Sharing information among various stakeholders is obviously important. And when the information is digital, it’s important to preserve its content and format. PDF files usually meet this need perfectly. However, it’s not an uncommon scenario to need to share a PDF that happens to include some personal information. Obviously, not everyone who needs that file [...]
PDF files are handy when a document needs to be shared but protected from further edits. However, there are some circumstances where you might need to add or change information in a PDF anyway, for example, adding a signature to a contract. Because the very nature of PDFs is to protect the document from edits, [...]
New Software Development Kits (SDKs) Save Developers Time, Reduces Frustration, and Enables Creation of More Efficient, Compliant, and Tailored PDF Solutions to Meet the Demands of Modern Applications. FREMONT, Calif. (February 19, 2025) – Foxit, a leading provider of innovative PDF and eSignature products and services, helping knowledge workers to increase their productivity and do [...]