Insights, tutorials, and updates from the Foxit PDF SDK engineering team.
If you’re a user of PDF beyond the basic levels, you may already be familiar with Foxit. For over two decades, Foxit has been creating advanced tools for millions of users for the purpose of creating, signing, and securing PDF documents. Foxit has support for complete PDF functionality across all platforms and environments, including the [...]
Mobile scanning direct to PDF can transform your document workflows. With features such as automatic page detection, light flash functionality, color management and settings for camera-captured documents to be enterprise-quality PDFs, you can get a lot from just a couple of gestures on a phone when you have the right technology behind it. The guide below describes how you can use Foxit’s Android PDF SDK to quickly create an app with powerful scanning functionality. By taking multiple photos or by selecting multiple images from an album, a PDF can be generated with just one click. You can use this project to integrate scanning into your own workflows and make this a powerful addition to your mobile application.
If you purchased within 60 days of a major release (i.e. version 8 to version 9) or you own a valid subscription for Premium Upgrade Protection then the upgrade to the latest major version of Foxit Quick PDF Library is free. If you do not fall into either of these categories then you will need [...]
Developers Will Benefit from Increased Speed, Control and Functionality FREMONT, Calif. – (July 27, 2021) — Foxit, a leading provider of innovative PDF products and services, helping knowledge workers to increase their productivity and do more with documents, today announced the launch of Foxit PDF SDK 8.0, delivering new advanced collaboration and accessibility features for developers. Foxit’s [...]
In Foxit PDF SDK for Web, annotations include not only regular PDF annotations but also text markup (think text highlighting, underlining, strikeout, squiggly, etc.), drawing annotations (think shapes like circle, rectangle, arrow), and other annotations, such as notes, free text, as well as standard and dynamic PDF stamping. Annotation The annotation supports three types of files to import/export data: XFDF, FDF and JSON. The following table lists what annotations currently support or not supported to import/export.
Securely capture, present, move, process, output, update and print information associated with static and dynamic XFA forms. Simplify data sharing, transportation and availability with XFA. Enjoy added functionality to PDF Forms so anyone can open calendar windows to choose dates, submit data easily or encrypt data upon submission to protect personally identifiable information. If forms are hugely important to how you do business, then this add-on is worth investing in.
With PDF SDK, text search enables you to search a string across thousands of documents since the full content (including split text, combined words, metadata, annotations and so on) is indexed. This means no more sifting through endless reams of paper to find that all important contract or invoice again. Text search takes seconds to execute and your query can be as simple or complex as needs be. Our search functionality in the Web SDK is more UI based. To use more text search functionality than shown in the sample below, you must use annotations as per the developer guide.
Programmatically search and sensor sensitive information in a document for legal or security purposes to keep customer and employee information safe. Achieve full GDPR-compliance with Foxit’s powerful technology. Our redaction module applies annotations to block sensitive information in a document. Only a dark line will show in the place of the content in the front-end and no sensitive data is kept in the meta information. Our technology utilizes a process that ensures redacted material is deleted and the blacked out (redacted) areas become images, stopping someone being able to access the sensitive information underneath.
A digital signature is a digitally generated representation of a person’s identity through either an image of a persons signature or a computer generated typed signature which verifies a person’s identify and authenticates the contents of a document. In technical terms digital signatures are generated public key encryption that confirms a person’s identity in order to substantiate a document for legal or other purposes. Digital signatures can happen at page or document level depending on regulation and company standards.
Enabling multiple people to work on the same PDF is more important than ever before. Not only because of its role in the ‘going paperless’ approach that countless companies are utilizing across the globe, but also because of the benefits to your document workflows and productivity. In a world where streamlining business processes is key, this brings working remotely to the next level, as even though you are not in the same office as a colleague, you can still see the exact same version of a live document as they do.