Foxit Phantom provides users with most of the features that desired in a program that manages reading, creating, editing and manipulating files in the PDF format. In my testing I found Foxit Phantom PDF Suite 10 to be very capable and relatively easy to use after studying the manual for a bit. Promoted as a “Business Ready Toolkit” to create “Standards Compliant PDF files” from hundreds of types of files “up to three times faster” it appears to live up to that claim. At $129 retail price, it’s really more than a casual user would likely ever need. Reviewer 2: This fully featured PDF application is designed to be an enterprise-level PDF solution for business use.

It is, in fact, not only a good alternative to Adobe Acrobat (which the site refers to as “the #1 competitor”) but a better alternative than Adobe Acrobat if for no other reason than price, ease of use, size of foot print, and lower use of system resources. It password protects documents, adds certificate encryption, enables signature with digital certificates, and converts documents into electronic forms for distribution via email or website. It claims to create standards compliant PDF files from hundreds of file types up to three times faster than with competitive tools.

The most salient differences are the business version’s support for PDF/A/E/X creation (the standard version only verifies compatibility for those), image editing, converting text to paths (in an external editor), redaction, and some advanced Active Directory features such as Rights Management Services encryption.Foxit Phantom is a business-ready PDF toolkit to create professional PDF documents and streamline business processes. Phantom PDF 6.1 is available in both $89 standard and $129 business versions.

Phantom PDF’s OCR is accurate with simpler, everyday business documents and forms. Please note that this is a stress test designed to push the limits of OCR.

Phantom PDF is not in Power PDF’s, or especially Acrobat’s, league in this respect. The search-able PDF I created from 15 complex documents wasn’t bad, though a lot text buried in images wasn’t rendered searchable, and the locations of some items were out of sync.īut the worst was the Word document Phantom PDF created from the same input-column errors made it 84 pages long, rather than the 25 it should be. However, for creating PDFs from scans with images, curved text, odd fonts, and lots of layout elements, not so much. Phantom PDF is an excellent editor, but had some trouble with creating PDFs from scans.Īs an editor for general PDF tasks, Phantom PDF is excellent annotating, inserting, deleting and altering formatting with the best of them.

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