Foxit PDF Reader lets you highlight, underline and strike through text. This is useful when reviewing definitions, formulas, important dates or key points in lecture notes.

Instead of reading an entire chapter again before an examination, you can return to the sections you previously marked.

You can attach sticky notes, comments and drawing mark-ups to a page. A student can add a lecturer’s explanation beside a slide, while a teacher can leave feedback on an assignment without printing it.

Your comments remain connected to the relevant page, making them easier to understand later than notes stored in a separate file.

The search function can locate words or phrases throughout a text-based PDF. This is helpful when finding a particular formula, scientific term, definition or topic inside a large textbook.

Search may not work properly when a document contains only scanned page images. Such documents normally need OCR before their text becomes searchable.

Foxit PDF Reader supports standard PDF form filling. Where an official form has interactive fields, you can type information directly into those fields and save a completed copy.

This can be useful for course registrations, scholarship forms and internship applications. However, some official forms must still be printed or signed by hand. Always follow the instructions issued by the receiving institution.

Foxit Reader provides tools for placing a signature on a PDF and verifying supported digital signatures. Foxit also offers separate eSign services for more advanced signing workflows.

Adding a signature to a file does not automatically make it acceptable for every application. Confirm whether the university, employer or government institution accepts electronic signatures before submitting the document.

Foxit AI Assistant can help summarise a document, explain selected text, translate content and answer questions about supported PDFs. This may help when reviewing a long report or trying to understand a difficult passage.

AI features can require an internet connection, a Foxit account and available usage credits. AI-generated explanations may also contain mistakes, so important academic or official information should be checked against the original document.

Foxit PDF Editor can modify existing text, images and page content. Teachers may find this helpful when updating their own worksheets, while students may use it to correct documents they created themselves.

Editing a PDF does not give permission to alter or republish copyrighted books, official certificates, examination papers or another person’s work.

The Editor can convert PDFs to formats such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. This is useful when you need to update your own lesson material, reuse a table or prepare an accessible version of authorised content.

Conversion is not always perfect. Complex layouts, equations, unusual fonts and scanned pages may require manual correction after conversion.

Foxit PDF Editor can combine several PDFs, separate a large document and reorder, rotate or remove pages.

A student could combine authorised lecture notes into one subject file. A teacher could separate a question paper from its marking guide before sharing the paper with students.

Optical Character Recognition, commonly called OCR, detects text inside scanned pages or photographs. After OCR processing, you may be able to search, select or copy recognised text.

Results depend on scan quality, language, page alignment and print clarity. Always compare important names, numbers and quotations against the original page.