iText DITO®

What is iText DITO?

A powerful template engine that converts data into iText-quality PDFs

iText DITO is a collaborative solution for developers and business users that simplifies the process of creating and maintaining PDFs, such as invoices, credit card statements, reports and more.

iText DITO creates an efficient process where developers can focus on the integration and generation aspect of PDF creation, freeing them to focus on other higher-value tasks. That allows other users with a less tech-oriented background profile, to create, design and maintain templates for PDF documents.

iText DITO, for documents built jointly by the Business and by IT.

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    BENEFITS

    Why use iText DITO?

    iText DITO helps you reduce time and cost of document automation projects. It is your ideal solution if you are looking to:

    • Mass-generate ISO-compliant PDF documents, 
    • Leverage data, wherever it resides,
    • Design and create accessible PDF/UA documents (for Section 508 compliance and more), 
    • Empower business users to own their document templates and easily incorporate company assets (such as logos, branding, header or footer information),
    • Dynamically bind data to template elements, and perform complex calculations, add conditional logic, data value formatting, and more, without changing the source data.

    iText DITO is comprised of three parts:

    Together you have a template solution 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.

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    Enterprise grade

    iText DITO is scalable, robust, capable of mass volume and ideal for large enterprise usage.

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    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.

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    Fast and convenient

    iText DITO reduces the time to develop templates. It makes both maintenance and updating of templates easier and faster.

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    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

    Schedule a Demo

    Discover the power of building data-driven PDF templates online with a guided demo from the iText engineering team.

    When you request a demo, a specialist will contact you within two business days to inquire details and set up a time for the walk-through. The link for the demo will be sent to you shortly after submitting your request here. If you did not receive it, check your “spam” or “junk email” folders.
     

    Case study

    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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