| Overview | Feature | iText 5 | iText 7 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PDF creation | Simple | ✓ | ✓ |
| HTML to PDF conversion | HTML & CSS | × | ✓ |
| HTML to PDF/UA | × | ✓ | |
| Out of box support elements/attribute | × | ✓ | |
| PDF redaction | Removing sensitive data | ✓ | ✓ |
| Regex based redaction | × | ✓ | |
| Language support | Indic languages | × | ✓ |
| Thai, Khmer | × | ✓ | |
| Arabic, Hebrew | × | ✓ | |
| Chinese, Japanese, Korean | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Cyrillic languages | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PDF Debugging | Dynamic debugging for Eclipse | × | ✓ |
| Dynamic debugging for Netbeans | × | ✓ | |
| Dynamic debugging for IntelliJ | × | ✓ | |
| Template based data extraction | × | ✓ | |
| Extraction of images, tables, text | × | ✓ | |
| Complex | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PDF 2.0 compliance | × | ✓ |
| PDF manipulating/updating | Adding content | ✓ | ✓ |
| Updating PDF objects [dictionaries etc] | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Acroform | Creation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Filling | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Flattening | ✓ | ✓ | |
| XFA | Flattening | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reading | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Annotations | Creation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Changing | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PDF parsing | Text extraction | ✓ | ✓ |
| Image extraction | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Tagged PDF | Creation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reading - data extraction | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Manipulating/Updating | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PDF/A | PDF/A-1(a,b) | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF/A-2(a,b,u) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PDF/A-3(a,b,u) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PDF/UA | Creation | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF/UA | Manipulating/Updating | ✓ | ✓ |
| Encryption | Encryption | ✓ | ✓ |
| Decryption | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Digital signatures | Signing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Validating | ✓ | ✓ |
PDF creation: Simple
iText 5
iText 7
PDF creation: Complex
iText 5
iText 7
PDF creation: PDF 2.0 compliance
iText 5
iText 7
PDF manipulating/updating: Adding content
iText 5
iText 7
PDF manipulating/updating: Updating PDF objects [dictionaries etc]
iText 5
iText 7
Acroform: Creation
iText 5
iText 7
Acroform: Filling
iText 5
iText 7
Acroform: Flattening
iText 5
iText 7
XFA: Filling
iText 5
iText 7
XFA: Flattening
iText 5
iText 7
XFA: Reading
iText 5
iText 7
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Annotations: Creation
iText 5
iText 7
Annotations: Changing
iText 5
iText 7
PDF parsing: Text extraction
iText 5
iText 7
PDF parsing: Image extraction
iText 5
iText 7
Tagged PDF: Creation
iText 5
iText 7
Tagged PDF: Reading - data extraction
iText 5
iText 7
Tagged PDF: Manipulating/Updating
iText 5
iText 7
PDF/A: PDF/A-1(a,b)
iText 5
iText 7
PDF/A: PDF/A-2(a,b,u)
iText 5
iText 7
PDF/A: PDF/A-3(a,b,u)
iText 5
iText 7
PDF/UA: Creation
iText 5
iText 7
PDF/UA: Manipulating/Updating
iText 5
iText 7
Encryption: Encryption
iText 5
iText 7
Encryption: Decryption
iText 5
iText 7
Digital signatures: Signing
iText 5
iText 7
Digital signatures: Validating
iText 5
iText 7
HTML to PDF conversion: HTML & CSS
iText 5
iText 7
HTML to PDF conversion: HTML to PDF/UA
iText 5
iText 7
HTML to PDF conversion: Out of box support elements/attribute
iText 5
iText 7
PDF redaction: Removing sensitive data
iText 5
iText 7
PDF redaction: Regex based redaction
iText 5
iText 7
Language support: Indic languages
iText 5
iText 7
Language support: Thai, Khmer
iText 5
iText 7
Language support: Arabic, Hebrew
iText 5
iText 7
Language support: Chinese, Japanese, Korean
iText 5
iText 7
Language support: Cyrillic languages
iText 5
iText 7
PDF Debugging: Dynamic debugging for Eclipse
iText 5
iText 7
PDF Debugging: Dynamic debugging for Netbeans
iText 5
iText 7
PDF Debugging: Dynamic debugging for IntelliJ
iText 5
iText 7
Data Extraction: Template based data extraction
iText 5
iText 7
Data Extraction: Extraction of images, tables, text
iText 5
iText 7
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