Foxit Software, Inc.
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| Industry | Software |
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| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder | Eugene Y. Xiong |
| Headquarters |
Fremont, California, United States |
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Area served
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World Wide |
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Key people
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Chairman and Founder: Eugene Y. Xiong, CEO: George Z Gao, CTO; Steven Li |
| Products | PDF software (Foxit Reader) and development kits |
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Number of employees
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Over 325 (7 offices worldwide) |
| Website |
www www |
Fremont, California,
Chairman and Founder: Eugene Y. Xiong, CEO: George Z Gao,
Foxit Software, Inc. develops Portable Document Format (PDF) software and tools used to create, edit, sign, and secure files and digital documents. It is a multinational software technology corporation headquartered in Fremont, California, with offices in Berlin, Beijing, Fuzhou, South Yarra, Australia and other locations. There are about 425 million Foxit users, with sales to more than 100,000 customers in 200 countries around the world.
Foxit Software was founded in 2001 by Eugene Y. Xiong to develop similar PDF software products to those from Adobe Systems and other PDF vendors, and offer them at lower prices.
In 2009 Foxit Software Company incorporated as Foxit Corporation.
Foxit has contributed to the evolution of the ISO 32000 standard and is currently active in new PDF standard initiatives. The company also played a role in development of the ISO 19005 standard, also known as PDF/A, for long term archiving of documents.
The company’s first product, Foxit Reader, was released in 2004. It provides a way to view, create and sign PDF files, and add annotations to them. Foxit Reader 3.0 offers comparable functionality to Adobe Reader. It is notable for its speed and small file size. Foxit released version 8.0 in 2016. The software is pre-installed on Windows PCs from HP, Acer, and ASUS. Foxit released version 9.0 in 2017.The software is available as a freeware download for PCs running Windows 7, MacOS and Linux.
Foxit has been found to contribute to persistent failures of Windows 10 File Explorer's context menu.
Foxit PhantomPDF, a multi-feature PDF editor, was released in 2008. Foxit PhantomPDF has an interface that holds many advanced, PDF editing and security features.[5] Foxit released version 8.0 in 2016.
Foxit Software released ConnectedPDF in 2016. ConnectedPDF extends the traditional portable document format by associating a unique identifier with each PDF, thereby enabling capabilities such as file update notifications, document locating and tracking, shared and synchronized review and mark-up, and remote digital rights management and protection.
ConnectedPDF is not a stand-alone product. Functionality is embedded within some of Foxit’s PDF software products. ConnectedPDF is included in the latest releases of Foxit PhantomPDF (version ≥8), Foxit Reader (version ≥8) and Foxit MobilePDF (version ≥5).
The company has developed original equipment manufacturer relationships with a variety of businesses. Foxit’s technology is an enabling technology at the heart of Amazon Kindle,Gmail and Google Chrome, and the company also provides the rendering engine that powers Google's open-source PDFium project.
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