5.1 Setting Up iText 7 Community <dependency> <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId> <artifactId>itext7-core</artifactId> <version>7.2.5</version> <type>pom</type> </dependency> 5.2 Creating a Table-based PDF (Invoice) import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.*; import com.itextpdf.layout.Document; import com.itextpdf.layout.element.*; public class InvoicePDF public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception PdfWriter writer = new PdfWriter("invoice.pdf"); PdfDocument pdf = new PdfDocument(writer); Document document = new Document(pdf);
try (PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(new File("sample.pdf"))) PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper(); String text = stripper.getText(document); System.out.println(text); pdf java programming
document.add(new Paragraph("INVOICE").setBold().setFontSize(20)); Table table = new Table(3); table.addCell("Item"); table.addCell("Quantity"); table.addCell("Price"); table.addCell("Laptop"); table.addCell("2"); table.addCell("$1200"); document.add(table); document.close(); Java, being a robust backend language, offers several
1. Introduction Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the most widely used file formats for document exchange. In enterprise applications, generating invoices, reports, contracts, or forms dynamically is a common requirement. Java, being a robust backend language, offers several powerful libraries to create, read, edit, and manipulate PDF documents programmatically. being a robust backend language
document.save("GeneratedDocument.pdf"); System.out.println("PDF created successfully."); catch (Exception e) e.printStackTrace();
try (PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(new File("form.pdf"))) PDAcroForm acroForm = document.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm(); PDField field = acroForm.getField("fullName"); field.setValue("John Doe"); acroForm.flatten(); // Optional: make fields read-only document.save("filled_form.pdf");
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page); contentStream.setFont(PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD, 12); contentStream.beginText(); contentStream.newLineAtOffset(100, 700); contentStream.showText("Hello, PDF World!"); contentStream.endText(); contentStream.close();