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Actuate is the company behind BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools). With millions of downloads worldwide, Eclipse BIRT is a leader in the open source BI field. Eclipse/BIRT uses iText to create documents in the Portable Document Format.

JasperSoft provides the most flexible, cost effective and widely deployed Business Intelligence suite in the world, enabling better decision making through highly interactive, web-based reports, dashboards and analysis. Leveraging a commercial open source business model, Jaspersoft provides end-to-end BI capabilities at a fraction of the cost of other vendors.

Janssen Pharmaceutica, a division of Johnson & Johnson, is one of the most innovative pharmaceutical companies in the world. Their research and development centre develops products for a wide range of disease areas, such as mental disorders, neurological problems, infectious diseases, immunological disorders, cancer, and cardiovascular and metabolic conditions. Documents are very important in this sector, which is why Janssen Pharmaceutica is using iText in different applications that involve the use of PDF.

If you want to send something by mail with the United States Postal Service, you can create your shipping label using Click-N-Ship®. You'll receive a PDF document that is created with iText.

Defense Finance and Accounting System (DFAS), Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), Office of Naval Research (ONR),... At iText, we're very familiar with the acronyms of many of the divisions of the US Department of Defense. We're always proud when we can answer an iText question posted to the mailing list by a developer with an e-mail address that ends with .mil. This means that iText is used in different applications that are used by the US Navy and the DoD. Ain't that great?

Ghent University is one of the first users of iText. They're still using iText in many different applications. iText is used in combination with Eclipse/BIRT for reporting; in combination with JasperReports for the creation of administrative documents. The pure iText is used to create invoices, to fill out forms, to create transcripts of records, and so on.

Pentaho is the open source business intelligence leader. Thousands of organizations globally depend on Pentaho to make faster and better business decisions that positively impact their bottom lines.
Pentaho relies on iText for the creation of PDF documents.

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) delivers a variety of programs and services through television and radio. SABC is using iText to generate receipts for their customers on their TV license payment site.

If you order your railway ticket online in Belgium, you get a PDF document created by iText. This is only one of the many examples of the use of iText at the NMBS / SNCB (the National Railway Company of Belgium).

On BookBoon.com you can download free ebooks for students and travelers in PDF format. All the books can be downloaded without registration. They are financed by a few in-book ads. The books were generated using iTextSharp, the C# port of iText.
iText is an ideal library if you want to create content in a dynamic way or if you want to customize existing document. It allows bookboon to adapt the in-book ads based on the audience: a book downloaded in the UK will have different ads if you download the same book in France.

Belgacom is the leading telecommunications company in Belgium and a market leader in a number of areas, including retail and wholesale fixed-line telephony services, mobile communications services and broadband data and internet services.
Every month Belgacom produces many Terabytes of invoices in the PDF format. Belgacom developers chose iText because it was "faster than any competing product" and "the only product that allowed us to create a complex layout."

Cirque du Soleil is reknown for high-quality, artistic entertainment. Since its dawn in 1984, Cirque du Soleil has constantly sought to evoke the imagination, invoke the senses and provoke the emotions of people around the world.
All around the world iText is used to create customized tickets and vouchers, combining graphics, text and barcodes that give you access to concerts, spectacles and many other events. For instance: you ticket to discover Cirque du Soleil a PDF document generated using iText. We're proud to be part of this magic!

Scriptura, a product created by Inventive Designers, is a powerful document platform, that allows you to graphically design your documents and control the entire document flow of your business, from composition and personalization to output production and delivery. Inventive Designers uses iText as the PDF engine in this product.

Faber and Faber is the largest and best-known independent publishing house in the UK. In 2007, Faber and Faber decided to bring Printing On Demand (POD) to that part of the market, which due to the traditional ways of the publishing business has ceased to be a market at all: out-of-print books.
Read how iText was used in this project in the article Faber Finds generative book covers.

Adobe ColdFusion application server and software enables developers to rapidly build, deploy, and maintain robust web applications for the enterprise. Whenever they need output in the form of PDF, they have a series of Cold Fusion tags at their disposition that are translated into calls to iText.

As described in the Open Blog, the New York Times decided to make all the public domain articles from 1851-1922 available free of charge. These articles are all in the form of images scanned from the original paper. In fact from 1851-1980, all 11 million articles are available as images in PDF format. To generate a PDF version of the article takes quite a bit of work -- each article is actually composed of numerous smaller TIFF images that need to be scaled and glued together in a coherent fashion. This work could not have been done without iText.

Every time I have to fill out my tax return forms, I am reminded of my business for more than one reason. In Belgium, citizens can use Tax On Web, an application that allows them to send all the information required by the Belgian IRS to the appropriate tax office. As the IRS already has plenty of information about us (obtained from our employer, obtained from our social security,...). This information is presented in the form of PDF documents. These documents are created with iText.

Manning Publications, the publisher of the two iText in Action books, use iText to apply social DRM to their PDF eBooks. The most visual aspect of the social DRM is the name of the customer stamped on every page. Apart from this, several other less visible "fingerprints" can be added to the eBook.

Windward reduces complexity, production time and total cost in generating reports. Using Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint as its layout tool, it requires no training to use, and no new software to learn. The engine producing PDF is... iText of course!

UnifiedPost is specialised in the optimization of invoice flows and other administrative documents. Via its communication platform the company offers solutions in order to receive, process, send and archive different document types, both electronic as physical. Unified Post has successfully been using iText to created hundreds of thousands of invoices in the Portable Document Format.

Read what the developers at Google write about iText:

Dan: "What libraries do people use for generating PDFs from java?"
Tim: "I used iText. It works pretty well."
Fernando: "+1 for iText."
Steve: "Ditto"
Joseph: "we are using itext..."
Mike: "Calendar uses iText..."
Isaac: "+1 for iText on (Google Spreadsheets)"

"Did six Googlers just AGREE on something in a company-wide mailing list thread?? Did that really just happen?? My God, there really is a first time for everything."

iText is used in several free software tools released by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies to create PDF documents. You'll find references to iText in the acknowledgments for Panoply Data Viewer, a cross-platform application which plots geo-gridded arrays from netCDF, HDF and GRIB datasets, and for Mars24, a cross-platform Java application which displays a Mars "sunclock", a graphical representation of Mars showing the current day- and nightsides of Mars, along with numerical readouts of the time in 24-hour format. Other displays include a plot showing the relative orbital positions of the four inner planets, a panorama showing the solar path as seen from a given location on Mars, and the Mars analemma.

When you receive a package from abroad you often have to pay for "COLLECT FREIGHT CHARGE", "COLLECT DUE AGENT",... expenses. You get an invoice with "CREDIT TERMS 15 DAYS". Ever wondered how these invoices are created? I received one in the PDF format, and yes, when I checked the producer it was... iText. What else?