Recommendations to others considering Foxit PDF Editor:
Definitely packs a lot of bang for the buck, and the functionality provides excellent value for the investment. If I could deploy this across my division, I would. I wish there were better licensing opportunities for educators, but there is substantial entrenchment of Adobe in this space. Overall compatibility with the PDF standard has been excellent; I haven't had any problems opening pdfs created from innumerable sources. I like the intuitive interface and page-level editing and compilation is a breeze. Hopefully we will have better management of OCR'd documents soon... it is still a bit of a challenge managing documents created in Adobe and merging them with documents created in Foxit, particularly if there are fields and signatures. We are still using Adobe Sign for mass signatures due to the popularity of Adobe across the enterprise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What problems is Foxit PDF Editor solving and how is that benefiting you?
We live in a world where PDFs abound. Not everything can be reliably OCR'd into Office, then exported back to PDF again... so being able to edit PDFs in their native format is a must. Digital signatures are also really important now that we are doing a lot more virtual work, and nobody wants to burn up paper just to print-sign-scan.
The perpetual licensing is huge, because it solves the long-term-load associated with subscription plans. I would hate to lose business because I lost functionality due to a revenue crunch preventing a subscription renewal. One app may not seem like a big difference, but if you move to a world where everything is subscription, you could enter a death spiral pretty easily if the renewals aren't staggered. Perpetual takes all of that away and provides the security of knowing that the functionality will be there regardless of whether the accounts receivable are timely or not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.