Technical Tales

A collection of articles and insights from the iText PDF development team, showcasing new features and real-world use cases.

Welcome to Technical Tales

Technical Tales is a collection of articles from iText’s in-house development team, providing background and insights into how we implement new features and improvements into the world’s foremost open-source PDF library: iText Core, and the range of add-on modules available in the iText Suite PDF SDK.

What You'll Discover

Explore practical implementations and innovative use cases to benefit usage of iText across diverse industries:

Document Automation - Streamlining PDF generation workflows at scale
Digital Signatures - Implementing secure, compliant e-signature solutions
Compliance Reporting - Meeting regulatory requirements with PDF/A and PDF/UA standards
Enterprise Integration - Embedding iText into mission-critical business systems
Technical Challenges - How teams can overcome complex PDF processing obstacles

Learn from the Community

Each Technical Tale provides insights into:

The business problem and technical requirements
Implementation approach and architecture decisions
Challenges encountered and solutions discovered
Results achieved and lessons learned

Whether you're building invoice generators, creating compliance reports, implementing digital workflows, or tackling unique PDF challenges, these stories from our development team aim to inform and inspire the global iText community with their own implementations.