Foxit PDF Editor
for IIT Kanpur Faculty and Students


Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur offers campus-wide access to Foxit PDF Editor for Education, providing licenses to Faculty and Students. This powerful productivity tool allows users to open, view, edit, and manage PDF documents, facilitating a wide range of document-related tasks crucial for academic and administrative work in a digital environment.
With this digital document editing tool, you can:
  • Annotate, highlight, add comments to digital documents just like on paper.

  • Convert scanned textbook files editable and text-searchable with OCR and study like you would with a physical textbook.

Those interested, may fill the form available here. The user will receive an email for account activation from Foxit Software with the subject "Foxit PDF Editor - IIT Kanpur".
Faculty and Students can use Foxit PDF Editor across three platforms:
Installation Guide
  • Download the the software as required and install it.

  • After successful installation, open Foxit PDF Editor and click sign in.


  • Click on "SSO" and sign in with IIT Kanpur Office 365 / M365 credentials.



  • Restart the Foxit PDF Editor and it is ready for use.

Terms of Use
  • Device Limit: Each account can be used on up to two devices simultaneously

  • Sign-In Requirement: Use your IIT Kanpur email account (ie: [user]@iitk.ac.in)



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