PDF and eSignature products and services company Foxit announced July 1 the launch of its new Foxit APIs, which provide developer-friendly access to Foxit’s PDF and document generation technologies—all hosted securely in the cloud.
Foxit said the APIs are designed for speed, scalability, and simplicity, allowing organizations to embed advanced document capabilities directly into their applications, customer portals, and digital workflows.
“From rendering interactive PDFs in a browser to automating high-volume document generation, these APIs help teams build smarter, faster document experiences without bulky infrastructure or bloated codebases,” Foxit said in a media release.
Foxit’s new APIs include:
- PDF Services API: Automate PDF creation, conversion, manipulation, and optimization. Ideal for back-end workflows like batch processing and document archiving.
- PDF Embed API: Deliver seamless in-browser PDF viewing with full control over appearance, permissions, and interactions, perfect for dashboards, portals, and customer relationship management systems.
- Document Generation API: Generate contracts, letters, invoices, and other documents from structured data using templates, at scale.
These additions complement Foxit’s eSign API, allowing users to build comprehensive, secure electronic signature workflows with full audit trails.
“Foxit has long been recognized for delivering high-performance PDF and eSignature solutions that are faster, lighter, and more flexible than legacy platforms,” Susana De Abrew, vice president of eSign, API, and Partner Ecosystem Strategy at Foxit, said in a statement. “With our new APIs, we’re extending that same innovation to developers, giving them direct, scalable access to the technology that powers Foxit PDF Editor and Foxit eSign. These APIs make it easier for our developers to integrate Foxit into their solutions, expand their service offerings, and deliver modern document workflows that are cloud-native, AI-enhanced, and ready for enterprise scale.”
She added, “This launch creates powerful new opportunities for our technology partners. They can now offer their customers the same advanced PDF and eSign technologies that power Foxit’s flagship products, delivered through modern, flexible APIs—without the pricing games, forced bundles, or restrictive licensing they’ve come to expect from entrenched vendors. It opens the door for partners to create more flexible, high-value offerings for their customers, on their own terms.”
With Foxit APIs, developers can deliver a seamless document experience directly in the browser.
- Previously: Users were taken out of their platform—PDFs opened in a new tab, downloaded locally, or relied on the browser’s default viewer.
- Now: The Embed API offers a fast, customizable, no-plugin viewer that developers can control entirely via JavaScript.
Developers can also automate high-volume document generation from data.
- Previously: Developers had to manually create document templates and write scripts to populate them from databases or user inputs, often resulting in inconsistent formatting and limited scalability.
- Now: The DocGen API lets them generate perfectly formatted contracts, letters, and more directly from JSON or form data using predefined templates
In addition, Foxit’s new APIs ensure document protection with encryption and password support while also generating lighter, faster-loading files through smart compression and removal of unnecessary metadata and resources.
“Foxit’s REST APIs are easy to pick up and powerful to scale,” said Raymond Camden, Foxit API Evangelist. “Developers can quickly build workflows that chain multiple document processes together, and the simplicity of REST makes it a great fit for low-code and no-code platforms.”
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