There some methods of the com.itextpdf.text.Image class that can be use to scale the image. These methods include the following: scaleAbsolute(), scaleAbsoluteWidth(), scaleAbsoluteHeight(), scalePercent() and scaleToFit().

package org.kodejava.example.itextpdf;

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

import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ImageScalingDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Document doc = new Document();
        try {
            PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, new FileOutputStream("ImageScaling.pdf"));
            doc.open();

            // Scale the image to an absolute width and an absolute
            // height
            String filename = "other-sample/src/main/resources/java.gif";
            Image image = Image.getInstance(filename);
            image.scaleAbsolute(200f, 200f);
            doc.add(image);

            // The following line to prevent the "Server returned
            // HTTP response code: 403" error.
            System.setProperty("http.agent", "Chrome");

            // Scale the image to a certain percentage
            String url = "http://kodejava.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/kodejava.png";
            image = Image.getInstance(url);
            image.scalePercent(200f);
            doc.add(image);

            // Scales the image so that it fits a certain width and
            // height
            image = Image.getInstance(url);
            image.scaleToFit(100f, 200f);
            doc.add(image);
        } catch (DocumentException | IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            doc.close();
        }
    }
}

Maven Dependencies

<!-- http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/itextpdf/itextpdf/5.5.10/itextpdf-5.5.10.jar -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
    <artifactId>itextpdf</artifactId>
    <version>5.5.10</version>
</dependency>

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