| 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 | Chinese, Japanese, Korean | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ |
| Cyrillic languages | ✓ (with iText 7 Core) | ✓ | |
| Arabic, Hebrew | ✓ (with pdfCalligraph) | × | |
| Indic languages | ✓ (with pdfCalligraph) | × | |
| Thai, Khmer | ✓ (with pdfCalligraph) | × | |
| 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) | × | |
| Text recognition (OCR) | Recognize and extract text | ✓ (with pdfOCR) | × |
| Recognize text and convert to PDF | ✓ (with pdfOCR) | × | |
| Recognize text and convert to PDF/A-3u | ✓ (with pdfOCR) | × | |
| PDF optimization | Intelligently optimize PDFs for size and speed | ✓ (with pdfOptimizer) | × |
| MS Office to PDF | Convert MS Office documents to PDF | ✓ (with pdfOffice) | × |
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