Foxit AI Assistant is designed to streamline document workflows and enhance productivity. Powered by Azure OpenAI GPT and Gemini, it helps users work more efficiently by answering questions, performing document operations, generating content, and supporting advanced task execution.
Core features
The Foxit AI Assistant subscription consists of two main modules: AI Assistant in Editor and Foxit Workspace. Each module provides distinct capabilities that support different types of content handling and task completion.
AI Assistant in Editor
The AI Assistant in Editor combines an agent-based conversational interface with integrated features in the AI Assistant tab to help users understand, navigate, and work with document content more efficiently. It supports natural-language interactions, advanced content generation, and direct document operations, while also providing built-in tools that enhance comprehension, accessibility, and workflow productivity. Key features include:
- Advanced agent-based conversational Q&A: Ask questions and receive detailed, real‑time responses. Supports Loop, Memory, Long Context, Compress Context, and tool calling.
- Preset and custom skills: Includes preset skills for summarization, translation, rewriting, JavaScript action analysis, and more. Users can also create custom skills for specialized workflows.
- Generation modes: Create images, diagrams, or perform agentic PDF editing directly through chat.
- MCP connectors: Connect to external apps and services in Desktop Client, including Connector Manager and local connector configuration.
- Local AI with BYOM and SLMs: Provide strict data security by keeping document content within the user’s environment while giving users control over which AI models run through custom models with Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) and enabling efficient on-device processing with SLMs.
- Document translation: Translates full documents into multiple supported languages.
- AI Bookmark generation: Automatically creates bookmarks based on document structure and page ranges.
- Formula recognition: Recognizes tagged formulas in PDFs, converts them to MathML, and includes it directly into the tags—improving accessibility for mathematical content. You can also convert selected formulas in PDFs to MathML or LaTeX via the AI Chat panel. (Note: The Formula to MathML command is located in the Accessibility tab.)
- Read Aloud: Reads documents or summaries aloud.
- Smart Podcast: Converts document content into a two‑person conversational audio format.
Foxit Workspace
Foxit Workspace is an intelligent workbench designed to help users complete real tasks, not just chat. It creates a closed loop that reviews source materials, extracts information, maintains context, drafts content, and produces reusable and sharable outputs to drive work forward. Tip: Foxit Workspace is available on your web browser, or on your desktop (separate installation required).
- Project‑based workflow: Organizes work into Projects containing Materials (Sources) and Crafts (AI‑generated artifacts).
- Multi‑source data management: Supports PDFs, Word, Excel, PPT, Markdown, text, images, and URLs.
- Information extraction: Extracts fields, sections, conclusions, and related content across multiple sources.
- Content creation: Drafts manuals, reports, plans, notes, and web pages.
- Multimodal artifact generation: Produces images, charts, slides, infographics, web pages, Markdown documents, and flashcards.
- Agent workflow support: Integrates Skills, Web Search, MCP, and Multi‑Model capabilities.
- Artifact lifecycle management: Crafts can be edited, converted, shared, and versioned.
Note: Foxit AI Assistant operates on a credit-based system for interactions with AI-powered tools. AI Assistant in Editor and Workspace shares from the same credit pool. You can track your credit usage from the Usage tab in the AI Settings dialog box, which appears after you click AI Settings. For detailed information about credit usage, please refer to AI Credit Usage Policy.
Accessing Foxit AI Assistant
Click AI Assistant on the ribbon and choose a command from the AI Assistant tab. Choosing AI Chat opens the AI Chat panel on the right side of the application window, allowing you to perform tasks and access additional tools and functions.
You can also select any content in your document and choose AI Assistant functions from the floating toolbar to perform tasks.
For more information about Foxit AI Assistant, please refer to Foxit AI Assistant User Manual here.
Foxit AI Assistant may produce inaccurate information about people, places, or facts. For more information on the AI Assistant’s security, please refer to Foxit AI Assistant Security Overview White Paper.