Welcome
iText ® is a library that allows you to create and manipulate PDF documents.
It enables developers looking to enhance web- and other applications
with dynamic PDF document generation and/or manipulation.
Developers can use iText to:
- Serve PDF to a browser
- Generate dynamic documents from XML files or databases
- Use PDF's many interactive features
- Add bookmarks, page numbers, watermarks, etc.
- Split, concatenate, and manipulate PDF pages
- Automate filling out of PDF forms
- Add digital signatures to a PDF file
iText is available in Java as well as in C#.
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Community
The iText library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License
version 3. Please read the terms of use
before downloading iText.
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Commercial
You can be released from the requirements of the AGPL by purchasing a commercial license.
Buying such a license can be mandatory as soon as you develop commercial activities.
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Documentation: iText in Action
iText in Action, Second Edition offers an introduction and a practical guide to iText
and the internals of PDF. This book lowers the learning curve and, through numerous
innovative and practical examples, unlocks the secrets hidden in Adobe's PDF Reference.
Buy the book
iText: one of the world's leading PDF libraries
Who's using iText?
Two examples of companies that are using iText:
Windward reduces complexity, production time and total cost in generating reports.
Using Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint as its layout tool, it requires no training to use,
and no new software to learn. The engine producing PDF is... iText of course!
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) delivers a variety of programs
and services through television and radio. SABC is using iText to generate
receipts for their customers on their TV license payment site.
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Windward Reports
Windward reduces complexity, production time and total cost in generating reports.
Using Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint as its layout tool, it requires no training to use,
and no new software to learn. The engine producing PDF is... iText of course!
SABC
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) delivers a variety of programs
and services through television and radio. SABC is using iText to generate
receipts for their customers on their TV license payment site.
Online resources
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- Getting started
- Creating PDF
- Forms and other interactive features
- Splitting and merging PDFs
- Advanced features
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News
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Three new articles from Michaël en Jeroen: How OAuth works, Android 101, and iText on the JVM (featuring examples in Jython, Groovy, Scala and Clojure).published on 2012-01-03
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The iText staff wishes you a happy New Year, and we want to say thank you 680,775 times, once for every single person who visited this site last year.published on 2012-01-01
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Finally! The first XFA2PDF demo showing how to convert a dynamic XFA form to a PDF. All feedback is welcome. Feel free to subscribe to the betali.st!published on 2011-12-28
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trumpetinc committed revision 5028 to the iText®, a JAVA-PDF library SVN repository, changing 1 filesposted on 2012-01-26
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trumpetinc committed revision 5027 to the iText®, a JAVA-PDF library SVN repository, changing 1 filesposted on 2012-01-26
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octaviansuteu created the Creating PDFReader throws exception for large files artifactposted on 2012-01-25
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