Licensors of the world's most popular
programmable PDF creation software

iText Software licenses two versions of the iText library: the original Java version and iText Sharp, which is written in C# and runs on the .NET platform.

iText can programmatically create files containing:

  • text (using AFM, TrueType, and OpenType fonts)
  • images (GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF, and most major formats)
  • tables (multidimensional, cross page, etc.)
  • charts and maps
  • graphics
  • forms (AcroForms, FDF, and XFDF)
  • signatures (public and private keys)
  • encryption
  • plus headers, footers, tables of contents, indexes, bookmarks, etc.

iText products also enable you to add page numbers, watermarks, bookmarks, and digital signatures to existing PDF documents. They can also split, concatenate, and manipulate PDF pages; automate filling out PDF forms; etc.

In addition to iText for Java and iText Sharp, several other text-based packages are available:

  • iText RUPS a GUI front-end that uses a PDF Renderer from Sun Microsystems for viewing and analyzing existing PDF documents. You can look inside the PDF and see the PDF internal syntax with its objects, operators, and operands.
  • iText Toolbox a UI for interacting with some functionality in the iText library. Currently, the Toolbox is a separate project available here.

 


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iText Users in Their Own Words

iText is the best Java API out there.
−Leonard Rosenthal, PDF Sages

For my use-case, I had pre-built PDFs with AcroForms. With iText, it’s quite easy to fill in the fields in the AcroForm and save a copy. All in a few lines of code. If you have to create/edit PDFs in your Java application, iText is the best thing out there.
−The Java EE Experience

iText is excellent if you have to pump out huge reports of thousands of pages, it does scale excellently. (I once used it to concatenate thousands of pdf pages into a huge compound document, and it blew the [vendor name] tools against the wall, literally, speedwise).
−Werner Punz

I love iText!! Never seen something like that before! I'm using a PDF template with many fields and filling the fields with data out of Lotus Domino. That works fine.
−Jens Dinstuehler