Foxit PDF Editor 2026.2 — Release Notes
Foxit PDF Editor 2026.2 introduces Foxit AI Workspace and an on-device AI Assistant with Bring Your Own Model support, alongside Purview compliance upgrades, expanded AEC tooling, Arabic language support, and administrative improvements for AI credit management.
Member NewsSeptember 7, 2026
Foxit PDF Editor 2026.2 — Release Notes
Foxit PDF Editor 2026.2 introduces Foxit AI Workspace and an on-device AI Assistant with Bring Your Own Model support, alongside Purview compliance upgrades, expanded AEC tooling, Arabic language support, and administrative improvements for AI credit management.
Member NewsSeptember 7, 2026
About Dusan Baranec, Foxit Corporation
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New Features
Foxit AI Workspace
A project-based AI workspace that maintains context across an entire project rather than a single file.
- Whole-project context across multiple documents
- Six output/deliverable types: document, presentation, image, diagram, mind map, webpage
- Autonomous agent with live web search and Skills support
- MCP connectors for Atlassian, Asana, Notion, HubSpot, Fireflies, and additional services
AI Assistant in Editor
- Natural-language access to 30+ PDF tools, with preview and full undo
- Local, on-device AI processing (no cloud dependency, works offline, no data leaves the device)
- Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) support for any OpenAI-compatible AI service, with no Foxit AI credit usage and no data sent to Foxit
Enhancements
Accessibility & Productivity
- Arabic language support added on Windows
- Upgraded ABBYY OCR engine, now available on the Mac App Store
Compliance (Microsoft Purview / MIP)
- Azure GCC High integration for U.S. government workloads
- File-scope sensitivity labels, aligned with Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat
- Label-change justification prompts and Purview-aligned audit logging
- Sensitivity labels and encryption preserved through PDF/Office format conversion
AEC (Architecture, Engineering & Construction) Tooling
- Favorite Toolbox: import/export support for Bluebeam markup symbols
- Auto-generated page labels, retained through document reorganization
- Expanded measurement types with page-level scale calibration
Platform & Administration
- Security patches now ship independently of feature releases
- New cross-page comparison algorithm, reducing false change detections
- AI subscription pooling and AI credit packs for administrators
- Redesigned homepage and refreshed color palette
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