Updated 09/01/26
Revolutionize Your workflow with Foxit AI Assistant
The Foxit AI Assistant User Manual provides essential insights and step-by-step instructions, ensuring you can maximize efficiency and transform the way you work with documents. This manual covers all features available in Foxit Workspace and the AI Assistant integrated in the Foxit PDF Editor across Windows, macOS, mobile, and the cloud.
Core features
The Foxit AI Assistant subscription consists of two main platforms: AI Assistant in Editor and Foxit Workspace. Each platform 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, mind maps, 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 and BYOM: 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, and allows users to control the process by selecting specific pages to translate and choosing whether to include text contained in images.
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 productivity tool 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 in 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 PDF, Word, Excel, PPT, URL, TXT, .MD, JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, and SVG.
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.
Who Should Download This Manual?
Ideal for students, researchers, and professionals in legal, finance, healthcare, and education, this manual guides you in leveraging our AI Assistant to simplify document-heavy tasks — summarizing reports, analyzing contracts, and extracting data — so you can focus on what truly matters.