Michael Ansaldo/IDGĪn Office-style ribbon and sidebar tools make PhantomPDF easy to navigate. Foxit has also added OneNote integration so you can send PDFs to your account from within Phantom PDF, as well as “protected view” options to open files from potentially unsafe locations yet protect your PC from threats. There’s also a much-welcome find-and-replace feature for easily changing text in a PDF document. You can now select a particular area in a PDF and export it to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, and Rich Text formats. Version 9 adds a host of largely behind-the-scenes improvements, though a few noticeably benefit the user experience. A version tree lets you easily see the complete history of a document.

It also allows you to glean workflow insights through document-usage tracking that lets you see who accessed the file, what pages they looked at, and what actions they performed. It enables collaboration features like multi-user document review, group commenting, and the ability to distribute documents to both internal and external participants.

While most of these features are included with the standard version of PhantomPDF, PhantomPDF Business makes the most use of ConnectedPDF, Foxit’s format for sharing and collaborating on documents via the cloud. It converted everything from a single-page flyer to a 20-page business document without a hitch, leaving all formatting intact. PhantomPDF can convert PDFs to the big three Office formats (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), HTML, plain text, rich text, and several image formats. PhantomPDF Business offers several levels of protection including content redaction.

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