Document Web Services Viewer API
Nutrient Document Web Services Viewer API is a service that integrates with Document Engine to support our Web SDK. It enables document rendering, processing, and storage in web applications.
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This guide explains how to upload a document, generate a token, and integrate the DWS Viewer API with Web SDK to render and display a document in your application.
You can test DWS capabilities in our API explorer.
Prefer to jump straight into code? View a complete working example.
Prerequisites
Before you begin, sign up(opens in a new tab) for a free account in the Document Web Services (DWS) dashboard.
Getting started
Follow the steps below:
Upload your document
- Upload from the DWS dashboard(opens in a new tab).
- Or, use the DWS Viewer API to upload and process documents directly from your application.
Generate or copy a session token
- If you uploaded the document from the DWS dashboard, use the testing token generated on the dashboard and paste it into your code.
- If you uploaded with the DWS Viewer API, generate a token programmatically. To do this, obtain an API key from the DWS dashboard(opens in a new tab) (navigate to API Keys in the left sidebar) and follow the generate a session token guide.
You can configure token settings such as expiry date, time, and editing permissions. For details, refer to the DWS API authentication guide.
Integrate Nutrient Web SDK
- Use Web SDK to render and display the document in your application.
- Refer to the Web SDK getting started guide to set up your preferred frontend framework.
- Pass the session token from step 2 above in the configuration object for the
NutrientViewer.load()method. For more details, refer to open a document in Web SDK.
The DWS Viewer API automatically persists any changes made to the document in the web viewer.