PLEASE NOTE: iText5 is EOL, and has been replaced by iText7
We HIGHLY recommend customers use iText7 for new projects, and to consider moving existing projects from iText5 to iText7 to benefit from the many improvements such as:
- HTML to PDF (PDF/UA) conversion
- PDF Redaction
- SVG support
- Better language support: Indic, Thai, Khmer, Arabic, Hebrew. (Close-source addon)
- PDF Debugging for your IDE
- Data Extraction
- Better continued support and bugfixes
- More modular, extensible handling of your document workflow
- Extra practical add-ons
- Encryption, hashing & digital signatures
iText consists of several jars.
The main iText release contains:
itextpdf-x.y.z.jar: the core libraryitext-xtra-x.y.z.jar: extra functionality (PDF 2!)itext-pdfa-x.y.z.jar: PDF/A-related functionalityxmlworker-x.y.z.jar: XML (and HTML) functionality
iText is hosted on https://github.com/itext/itextpdf
You can find the latest releases here:
You can also build iText from source.
We also have a tool that can help you debug PDFs:
itext-rups-x.y.z.jarRUPS is hosted on http://github.com/itext/rups
If you have an idea on how to improve iText and you want to submit code, please read our Contribution Guidelines.
iText is licensed as AGPL software.
AGPL is a free / open source software license.
This doesn't mean the software is gratis!
Buying a license is mandatory as soon as you develop commercial activities distributing the iText software inside your product or deploying it on a network without disclosing the source code of your own applications under the AGPL license. These activities include:
- offering paid services to customers as an ASP
- serving PDFs on the fly in the cloud or in a web application
- shipping iText with a closed source product
Contact sales for more info: http://itextpdf.com/sales