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iText for Java represents the next level of SDKs for developers that want to take advantage of the benefits PDF can bring. Equipped with a better document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities and the ability to create, edit and enhance PDF documents, iText can be a boon to nearly every workflow.

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iText Core/Community is a high-performance, battle-tested library that allows you to create, adapt, inspect and maintain PDF documents, allowing you to add PDF functionality to your software projects with ease. It is also available for .[NET][itextdotnet] (C#).

The key features of iText Core/Community are:

Core library:
- PDF creation with the use of our layout engine
- PDF manipulation, e.g. merging multiple PDFs into one, adding new content, ...
- PDF digital signing
- PDF form creation and manipulation
- Working with PDF/A documents
- Working with PDF/UA documents
- FIPS-compliant cryptography
- Barcode generation
- SVG support
[Addons:][all products]
- Converting XML/HTML & CSS to PDF [repo][pdfhtml], [info][pdfhtmlproduct]
- Perform OCR on images and PDF documents [repo][pdfocr], [info][pdfocrproduct]
- Redacting sensitive information in PDF documents [repo][pdfsweep], [info][pdfsweepproduct]
- Support for international character sets (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Thai, ...) [info][calligraph]
- Optimize PDF documents for reduced file size, and increased performance [info][optimizer]
- Flattening XFA documents [info][xfa]
- PDF debugging [repo][rups], [info][rupsproduct]

Want to discover what's possible? Head over to our Demo Lab! It contains a collection of demo applications ready to use online!

Getting started

The easiest way to get started is to use Maven, just add the following entries to your pom.xml file:


<properties>
  <itext.version>REPLACE_WITH_DESIRED_ITEXT_VERSION</itext.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
    <artifactId>itext-core</artifactId>
    <version>${itext.version}</version>
    <type>pom</type>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
    <artifactId>bouncy-castle-adapter</artifactId>
    <version>${itext.version}</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

For more advanced use cases, please refer to the Installation guidelines. You can also [build iText Community from source][building].

Hello PDF!

The following example shows how easy it is to create a simple PDF document:

package com.itextpdf.hellopdf;

import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfDocument;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.itextpdf.layout.Document;
import com.itextpdf.layout.element.Paragraph;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

public class HelloPdfApp {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
      try (Document document = new Document(new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter("./hello-pdf.pdf")))) {
            document.add(new Paragraph("Hello PDF!"));
        }
    }
}

GraalVM compatibility

Starting from version 8.0.3 iText Core supports native image compilation using GraalVM. See [building] for details.

Examples

This is a small subset of examples to get you started. For more advanced examples, refer to our Knowledge Base or the following links: Examples repo, Signing examples.

Some of the output PDF files will be incorrectly displayed by the GitHub previewer, so be sure to download them to see the correct results.

Description	Link
Basic layout
Change text properties	Java, PDF
Creating a simple table	Java, PDF
Add an image to a PDF document	Java, PDF
Create a list	Java, PDF
Add a watermark	Java, PDF
Add links to navigate within a document	Java, PDF
Create a popup annotation	Java,