Itext: Position image at specific position

Image class provides the method ‘setAbsolutePosition’ to set the image at given position.

import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;

import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Image;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class TestImage {
  public static void main(String args[]) throws DocumentException, MalformedURLException, IOException {
    Document document = new Document();
    PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("my_images.pdf"));
    document.open();

    Image image1 = Image.getInstance("lion.jpeg");
    image1.scalePercent(50);
    image1.setAbsolutePosition(400, 650);
    document.add(image1);
    
    document.close();
  }
}

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