A powerful template engine that converts data into iText-quality PDFs
iText DITO is a data-driven, template-based PDF generator that simplifies the process of creating and maintaining PDFs. It offers an intuitive visual template designer and a powerful API for processing and production (available in Java and Docker flavors).
It is your ideal solution if you are looking to
- Leverage data, wherever it resides,
- Mass-generate compliant PDF documents,
- Reduce time and cost of document automation projects,
- Empower business users to own their document templates.
Why use iText DITO?
iText DITO is a highly-scalable low-code PDF generation solution designed to meet your business needs. It is comprised of two parts: an intuitive front-end WYSIWYG template designer and a powerful PDF production API developed from the esteemed iText 7 SDK. Together you have a template engine capable of generating a few hundred to a few hundred thousand PDF documents per day.
iText DITO can be used in combination with a database, to either extract data for processing or input information from your database into the documents automatically.
It's a perfect solution for organizations looking to collaboratively and intelligently manage information, while also reducing developer workload.
Enterprise grade
iText DITO is scalable, robust, capable of mass volume and ideal for large enterprise usage.
SDK/API
The iText DITO SDK gives developers the flexibility to integrate its functionality into existing processes and can be customized to meet your document workflow requirements.
It is available as either a native Java version, a command-line version, or a Docker image with a straightforward and programming language agnostic RESTful API for convenient deployment and scaling.
Fast and convenient
iText DITO reduces the time to develop templates. It makes both maintenance and updating of templates easier and faster.
Visual designer
iText DITO uses an interface to build templates via drag and drop, replacing cumbersome coding. It also includes easy to use wizards for features such as:
- conditional content to show or hide content based on set conditions
- conditional formatting to style data bindings based on their values
- filtered loops to display a subset of items in an array
- generating 1D and 2D barcodes from your input data, with a wide range of barcode formats supported
- assisting with template design for generating accessible PDF/UA compliant documents
- generating line and column charts based on data in an array
Fast template development for health reporting with iText DITO
New Ocean Health, a leading software design and development company, uses iText DITO, our new solution for template-based PDF generation, to integrate with their Enterprise Health Management platform.
They use iText DITO to process and format data from their customers' users, populate a report template and then transform it into PDF format.
This case study describes how iText DITO saved them invaluable time and resources.

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