Splitting and Merging Pdf Files in C# Using iTextSharp

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iTextSharp is a direct .NET port of the open source iText Java library for PDF generation and manipulation. As the project’s summary page on SourceForge states, iText “ . . . can be used to create PDF Documents from scratch, to convert XML to PDF . . . to fill out interactive PDF forms, to stamp new content on existing PDF documents, to split and merge existing PDF documents, and much more.”

I noted in my previous post on PdfBox that PdfBox was a little easier for me to get up and running with, at least for rather basic tasks such as splitting and merging existing Pdf files. I also noted that iText looked to be a little more complex, and I was correct. However, iTextSharp does not suffer some of the performance drawbacks inherent to PdfBox, at least on the .net platform.