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Installation: iText 7 Core is available via Maven on The Central repository. If you need all iText 7 modules, then you don't need to add the individual modules and you can just add this XML snippet in your pom.xml. Maven will then do all the heavy lifting for you and download the required modules from The Central Repository. Simply add iText 7 as a dependency to your pom.xml:

	<properties>
    <itext.version>RELEASE</itext.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
    <!-- add all iText 7 modules -->
    <dependency>
       <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
       <artifactId>itext7-core</artifactId>
       <version>${itext.version}</version>
       <type>pom</type>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

NOTE: We use "RELEASE" as the iText version in this installation, which will ensure you install the current release versions of the iText 7 modules. If your project requires a specific version of iText 7 to function correctly, ensure you replace this with your desired version number in your pom.xml.

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Features

Discover all iText PDF features of iText 5 and 7 and with which add-ons they are compatible.

Overview Feature iText 5 iText 7
PDF creation Simple ✓ ✓
Complex ✓ ✓
PDF 2.0 compliance × ✓
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 × ✓
Data Extraction Template based data extraction × ✓
Extraction of images, tables, text × ✓
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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 ✓ ✓
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Data Extraction: Extraction of images, tables, text

iText 5
iText 7

Data Extraction: Template based data extraction

iText 5
iText 7

PDF Debugging: Dynamic debugging for IntelliJ

iText 5
iText 7

PDF Debugging: Dynamic debugging for Netbeans

iText 5
iText 7

PDF Debugging: Dynamic debugging for Eclipse

iText 5
iText 7

Language support: Cyrillic languages

iText 5
iText 7

Language support: Chinese, Japanese, Korean

iText 5
iText 7

Language support: Arabic, Hebrew

iText 5
iText 7

Language support: Thai, Khmer

iText 5
iText 7

Language support: Indic languages

iText 5
iText 7
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PDF redaction: Regex based redaction

iText 5
iText 7

PDF redaction: Removing sensitive data

iText 5
iText 7

HTML to PDF conversion: Out of box support elements/attribute

iText 5
iText 7

HTML to PDF conversion: HTML to PDF/UA

iText 5
iText 7

HTML to PDF conversion: HTML & CSS

iText 5
iText 7

Digital signatures: Validating

iText 5
iText 7

Digital signatures: Signing

iText 5
iText 7

Encryption: Decryption

iText 5
iText 7

Encryption: Encryption

iText 5
iText 7

PDF/UA: Manipulating/Updating

iText 5
iText 7

PDF/UA: Creation

iText 5
iText 7

PDF/A: PDF/A-3(a,b,u)

iText 5
iText 7

PDF/A: PDF/A-2(a,b,u)

iText 5
iText 7

PDF/A: PDF/A-1(a,b)

iText 5
iText 7

Tagged PDF: Manipulating/Updating

iText 5
iText 7

Tagged PDF: Reading - data extraction

iText 5
iText 7

Tagged PDF: Creation

iText 5
iText 7

PDF parsing: Image extraction

iText 5
iText 7

PDF parsing: Text extraction

iText 5
iText 7

Annotations: Changing

iText 5
iText 7

Annotations: Creation

iText 5
iText 7

XFA: Reading

iText 5
iText 7

XFA: Flattening

iText 5
iText 7

XFA: Filling

iText 5
iText 7

Acroform: Flattening

iText 5
iText 7

Acroform: Filling

iText 5
iText 7

Acroform: Creation

iText 5
iText 7

PDF manipulating/updating: Updating PDF objects [dictionaries etc]

iText 5
iText 7

PDF manipulating/updating: Adding content

iText 5
iText 7

PDF creation: PDF 2.0 compliance

iText 5
iText 7

PDF creation: Complex

iText 5
iText 7

PDF creation: Simple

iText 5
iText 7
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Compatibility Matrix

Use our easy compatibility matrix tool to find more information about the compatibility between your current iText Core/Community version and our add-ons and 3rd-party standalone applications

Add-ons 7.1.9

iText 7 Core

7.1.9

iText 7 Community

7.1.9

pdf2Data

2.1.5

pdfHTML

2.1.6

pdfDebug

2.0.1
More add-ons 7.1.9

pdfXFA

2.0.4

pdfCalligraph

2.0.4

pdfSweep

2.0.4

pdfRender

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