Java Magazine, July/August 2018
ORACLE COM JAVAMAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2018 26 libraries The code becomes slightly more complex if you want to introduce special fonts add bookmarks and perform other customizations all of which are illustrated in the tutorial on the iText website Conclusion In this article we created two PDF documents from scratch using the iText core libraries With these libraries you can also fill out interactive forms digitally sign documents split and merge existing PDF files and reuse and extract content from existing documents On top of the iText core libraries you can use diferent add ons including pdfHTML the add on we used in our example when we converted an HTML file to PDF and pdfSweep which can be used to physically remove content from documents For instance using a regular expression that matches a social security number SSN you can physically remove the SSN from a batch of PDF documents iText has also been active combining PDF with blockchain technology With the pdfChain add on you can register documents in a blockchain instead of digitally signing them By adding metadata such as a status and the document location you can automate your document workflow and ensure the long term validity of your PDF files article Bruno Lowagie @ bruno1970 is the original developer of iText He is an active member of the ISO and PDF communities and has authored several books about iText When he is not working in the PDF world Lowagie spends much of his time with his wife and two sons Joris Schellekens @ Joris1989BE is a research engineer with iText who focuses on disruptive technologies such as machine learning and natural language processing He is passionate about new technology and finding ways to solve challenges with PDF When Schellekens is not researching or coding for iText you can find him working on his own coding projects working on math projects or listening to music
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