Foxit Corporation is a California headquartered software corporation with offices in United States, China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Founded in 2001 and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Foxit believes in innovative, standards-based technology and unrivaled customer support, with a deep commitment to sustainable, environmentally sound products and services.

The company specializes in providing software solutions for reading, creating, organizing, and securing PDF documents. The most notable product of the company is the Foxit Reader

Foxit Reader

Foxit Reader is a multilingual PDF reader. Both the basic and full version readers can be downloaded for free.Foxit Reader is notable for its short load time and small filesize, and has been compared favorably to Adobe Reader...

, a PDF reader that has been compared favorably to Adobe Reader. Foxit PDF solutions are available for handhelds and desktops with free technical support for all products.

Foxit Corporation’s products offerings include:

• Foxit Reader
  Foxit Reader
  Foxit Reader is a multilingual PDF reader. Both the basic and full version readers can be downloaded for free.Foxit Reader is notable for its short load time and small filesize, and has been compared favorably to Adobe Reader...
  
   is a small, fast, and feature rich PDF viewer which allows the user to open, view, and print any PDF file. Foxit PDF Reader includes features like annotations, forms filling, highlighting text, and the ability to add text to PDF documents.

• Foxit Phantom PDF Suite is a PDF toolkit that is seen as an alternative to Adobe Acrobat.

• Foxit PDF Creator is a small and fast PDF creation tool (virtual printer) which converts any type of printable Windows document, including DOC, XLS, PPT, TXT, E-MAIL and even HTML, to a universally accepted PDF format with the click of a button.

• Foxit PDF Editor allows the user to modify any page contents within any PDF document. The user can select, insert, change, remove, rotate, copy and paste texts, images, graphics and shadings. The user can insert, import, delete pages or design page layout.

• Foxit PDF Security Suite delivers PDF policy protection and PDF reader extensions capabilities to any business running Microsoft Windows Server® or Sharepoint® with Active Directory® Rights Management Services (AD RMS).

• Foxit PDF IFilter is designed to help users index a large amount of PDF documents and then quickly find text within these documents. Built on Microsoft’s IFilter indexing interface, Foxit PDF IFilter extracts the contents, properties and bookmarks from PDF documents and returns index results to search engine software using Microsoft Windows.

• Foxit PDF SDK ActiveX is a visual programming component which allows developers to quickly add PDF display capability to their applications.

• Foxit PDF SDK DLL is a software development kit for rendering PDF page content in a wide range of applications within desktop environments.

• Foxit Embedded PDF SDK is a software development kit specially designed for rendering PDF content on mobile devices.

History

Founded in 2001, the company has quickly expanded internationally with offices in the United States, China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea. In 2004, Foxit released its flagship product, Foxit Reader

Foxit Reader

Foxit Reader is a multilingual PDF reader. Both the basic and full version readers can be downloaded for free.Foxit Reader is notable for its short load time and small filesize, and has been compared favorably to Adobe Reader...

along with Foxit PDF Editor.

Foxit was awarded the Minority Global Technology Firm of the Year in August 2011 by the Minority Business Development Association (MBDA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The award recognizes firms for establishing best practices and for their exemplary accomplishments in advancing minority business enterprises.

External links

• Foxit Official Website (English)
• Foxit Official Website (Chinese)
• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner page (English)
• Better Business Bureau report (English)
• Minority Business Development Association (MBDA) (English)
• U.S. Department of Commerce (English)