We HIGHLY recommend customers use iText 7 for new projects, and to consider moving existing projects from iText 5 to iText 7 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

The main release contains:

• itextpdf-x.y.z.jar: the core library
• itext-xtra-x.y.z.jar: extra functionality (PDF 2!)
• itext-pdfa-x.y.z.jar: PDF/A-related functionality
• xmlworker-x.y.z.jar: XML (and HTML) functionality

iText 5 is hosted on https://github.com/itext/itextpdf

You can find the latest releases here:

• https://github.com/itext/itextpdf/releases/latest

You can also build iText 5 from source.

We also have RUPS — a tool that can help you debug PDFs. It's hosted on https://github.com/itext/rups

If you have an idea on how to improve iText 5 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: https://itextpdf.com/sales