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PDF/A: Digital documents to withstand the sands of time

Everything on the timeless standard for archived documents: why use PDF/A, the standard’s details, popular use cases, areas of application over various industries and an archiving case study.

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MEETING GROWING DEMAND IN E-SIGNATURES & DOCUMENT SECURITY

iText Fireside Chat Enterprise Series

At  the inaugural iText Fireside Chat, enterprise industry leaders with experience in software development and document management will discuss security and digital signing of documents across industries. 

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A powerful PDF Toolkit for PDF generation, PDF programming, handling & manipulation. 
The preferred PDF engine for Java and .NET developers, small Enterprises as well as large Corporations and Government institutions.

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Our PDF toolkit offers you one of the best-documented and most versatile PDF engines in the world (written in Java and .NET), which allows you to not only integrate PDF functionalities into your workflow, but also in your applications, processes or products.

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iText pdfOCR offers Optical Character Recognition functionality to convert your scanned documents, PDFs and images into fully searchable PDF/A-3u compliant format making it possible to access and process the text they contain.
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Convert from HTML to PDF

Create professionally formatted, smart PDF documents with pdfHTML. Convert HTML into standards compliant, accessible, and searchable PDFs.

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Multiple language and writing systems support

pdfCalligraph enables multiple language support. Automatically detect writing systems and make intelligent glyph substitutions using script and font information.

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Redact PDF content

Safely and securely redact content in PDFs using pdfSweep. Automate the redaction process, to eliminate manual document processing and data leaks.

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Flatten XFA forms

pdfXFA enables dynamic PDF generation and flattening of dynamic PDF forms. Use XFA templates to render XML data to PDF, and preprocess XFA forms for PDF workflows.

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Powerful PDF debugging

Analyze partial and unfinished documents during their creation with pdfDebug. Integrates into your IDE to view internal structure of your PDF files.

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Digital Signatures

Increase document security in contracts, non-disclosure agreements etc. Ensure document integrity to prove there have been no unauthorized changes.

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Automate PDF generation

IText enables the automatic generation of multiple types of documents, such as invoices, statements, boarding passes etc. as PDF.

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Automate PDF processing

Extract data PDF documents such as invoices, reports, forms etc. with pdf2Data. Recognize data inside PDFs based on pre-defined templates.

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Modify PDF structure

Split and merge PDFs, add text or other content such as barcodes, image, watermarks and stamps to documents.

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Customize PDFs with programming

Optimize your PDF workflow by using Java or .NET to program PDFs that perfectly fit your document needs.

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Compliant with modern standards

iText supports PDF 2.0 and enables you to use PDF/A for long-term archiving and create accessible PDF/UA documents.

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Flexible licensing options

iText gives you the choice of either using it for free under the conditions of an AGPL license, or a commercial license option if you prefer.

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Use data-driven templates for PDF forms

Simplify the process of creating multiple data-driven templates with iText DITO and save valuable development time and resources.

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Blockchain technology integration

Secure and authenticate digital invoices, contracts, tenders and more by storing the digital signatures in a Blockchain, rather than in documents.

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Convert PDFs to images

Easily display PDFs on mobile with pdfRender by rendering them as images, or ensure compatibility with archival and legacy workflow requirements.

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OCR to convert scanned files and images into PDF searchable documents

Enable the access to and the processing of text in images, scans and more.

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iText is very readable and easy to understand. Also, in iText I don't need to write lots of code, you already provide almost all the methods necessary to do something.
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We chose iText to power the PDF signing part of AIS due to its ease of use and flexibility. Thanks to its provision of an abstraction layer for PDF, it enables our customers to produce digitally signed PDFs without having to know about the PDF specifications.
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We’re very happy with the PDF/A functionality provided by iText, and it forms an essential part of our DICOM-compliant reporting framework.
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By using iText 7 for Smart Certificate 2.0, it enables us to mass generate PDF documents and sign them with GlobalSign certificates.
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Using the iText DITO Editor to develop our report templates is a huge time saver. I can now do in just 45 minutes what would have taken over two weeks to do in code using other PDF libraries!
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We chose iText over other open source solutions because it was really quick and easy to develop our application using iText. That's thanks to the guides and documentation available on the iText website, and the many examples on developer communities like Stack Overflow.
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iText is a breeze! Using a proven and tested PDF technology helped us to focus on what we do best — building a high quality mobile app.
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With iText we have the peace of mind that we are delivering a solid solution to our client.
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We chose the iText library because it was the only solution that allowed easy integration into our open standards architecture.
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