| Overview | Feature | iText 7 Suite | iText 5 (deprecated) |
|---|---|---|---|
| PDF creation and generation | Simple (using high-level API) | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ |
| Complex (using low-level API) | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| PDF 2.0 compliance | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | × | HTML to PDF conversion | HTML & CSS | ✓ (with pdfHTML) | × |
| HTML to PDF/UA | ✓ (with pdfHTML) | × | |
| Out of box support elements/attribute | ✓ (with pdfHTML) | × | |
| PDF redaction | Removing sensitive data | ✓ (with pdfSweep) | ✓ |
| Regex based redaction | ✓ (with pdfSweep) | × | |
| Language support | Indic languages | ✓ (with pdfCalligraph) | × |
| Thai, Khmer | ✓ (with pdfCalligraph) | × | |
| Arabic, Hebrew | ✓ (with pdfCalligraph) | × | |
| Chinese, Japanese, Korean | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| Cyrillic languages | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| PDF Debugging | Inspect PDFs to find and fix bugs | ✓ (with RUPS) | ✓ |
| Data Extraction | Template based data extraction | ✓ (with pdf2Data) | × |
| Extraction of images, tables, text | ✓ (with pdf2Data) | × | |
| PDF to Image | Render PDFs as images | ✓ (with pdfRender) | × |
| PDF manipulating/updating | Adding content | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ |
| Updating PDF objects [dictionaries etc] | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| AcroForm | Creation | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ |
| Filling | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| Flattening | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| XFDF support | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | × | |
| XFA | Flattening | ✓ (with pdfXFA) | ✓ |
| Reading | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| Annotations | Creation | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ |
| Changing | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| PDF parsing | Text extraction | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ |
| Image extraction | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| Tagged PDF | Creation | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ |
| Reading - data extraction | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| Manipulating/Updating | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| PDF/A | PDF/A-1(a,b) | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ |
| PDF/A-2(a,b,u) | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| PDF/A-3(a,b,u) | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| PDF/UA | Creation | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ |
| Manipulating/Updating | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| Encryption | Encryption | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ |
| Decryption | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| Digital signatures | Signing | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ |
| Validating | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| SVG support | Transparency | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | × |
| Bézier paths | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | × | |
| Markers | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | × |
PDF creation and generation: Complex
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
PDF creation and generation: Simple
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
PDF creation and generation: PDF 2.0 compliance
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
HTML to PDF conversion: HTML & CSS
iText 5
(with pdfHTML)
HTML to PDF conversion: Out of box support elements/attribute
iText 5
(with pdfHTML)
HTML to PDF conversion: HTML to PDF/UA
iText 5
(with pdfHTML)
PDF redaction: Regex based redaction
iText 5
(with pdfSweep)
PDF redaction: Removing sensitive data
iText 5
(with pdfSweep)
Language support: Cyrillic languages
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
Language support: Chinese, Japanese, Korean
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
Language support: Arabic, Hebrew
iText 5
(with pdfCalligraph)
Language support: Thai, Khmer
iText 5
(with pdfCalligraph)
Language support: Indic languages
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
PDF Debugging: Inspect PDFs to find and fix bugs
iText 5
(with RUPS)
Data Extraction: Extraction of images, tables, text
iText 5
(with pdf2Data)
Data Extraction: Template based data extraction
iText 5
(with pdf2Data)
PDF to Image: Render PDFs as images
iText 5
(with pdfRender)
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PDF manipulating/updating: Updating PDF objects [dictionaries etc]
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
PDF manipulating/updating: Adding content
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
AcroForm: Creation
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
AcroForm: Flattening
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
AcroForm: Filling
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
AcroForm: XFDF support
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
Annotations: Changing
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
Annotations: Creation
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
XFA: Reading
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
XFA: Flattening
iText 5
(with pdfXFA)
PDF parsing: Image extraction
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
PDF parsing: Text extraction
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
Tagged PDF: Manipulating/Updating
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
Tagged PDF: Reading - data extraction
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
Tagged PDF: Creation
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
Digital signatures: Validating
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
Digital signatures: Signing
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
Encryption: Decryption
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
Encryption: Encryption
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
PDF/UA: Manipulating/Updating
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
PDF/UA: Creation
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
PDF/A: PDF/A-3(a,b,u)
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
PDF/A: PDF/A-2(a,b,u)
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
PDF/A: PDF/A-1(a,b)
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
SVG support: Transparency
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
SVG support: Bézier paths
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
SVG support: Markers
iText 5
(with iText 7 Core)
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