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description: "Unlock powerful document processing capabilities with Nutrient Document Engine. Learn to integrate PDF generation, editing, and redaction into your server-side applications seamlessly."
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# Developer guides

Welcome to the Document Engine developer guides. These guides show how to add document processing functionality to server-side applications using our API, as well as how to integrate with Nutrient’s frontend SDKs on Web, iOS, and Android.

Refer to the [get started guides](https://www.nutrient.io/sdk/document-engine/getting-started.md) to quickly add PDF generation, editing, and redaction to your application.

## Guides

**[Configuration](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/configuration/options.md)**\
How to customize some of Document Engine’s options

**[File management](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/file-management/store-user-uploaded-files.md)**\
How to migrate and create documents for Document Engine

**[Deployment](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/deployment.md)**\
How to deploy on Kubernetes via a Helm chart

**[Management](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/management/dashboard.md)**\
How to use the built-in dashboard

**[Monitoring](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/monitoring/logs.md)**\
How to use Document Engine’s monitoring capabilities

**[Viewer (UI integration)](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/viewer.md)**\
Learn about the optional integrated document viewers

**[PDF generation](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/pdf-generation.md)**\
How to generate PDFs and fillable PDF forms

**[Conversion](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/conversion.md)**\
How to convert from Microsoft Office to PDF and more

**[OCR](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/ocr.md)**\
How to make scans searchable, extract text from images, and more

**[Annotations](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/annotations.md)**\
How to import and flatten annotations, and more

**[Forms](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/forms.md)**\
How to create a PDF form, fill form fields, extract data, and more

**[Editor](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/editor.md)**\
How to merge documents, manipulate or add pages, and more

**[Signatures](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/signatures.md)**\
How to add digital signatures to PDF documents

**[Redaction](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/redaction.md)**\
How to redact content programmatically

**[Extraction](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/extraction.md)**\
How to extract content and structured data from documents

**[Optimization](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/optimization.md)**\
How to compress and shrink PDF documents

**[PDF/A](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/pdfa.md)**\
How to convert into PDF/A and validate conformance

**[Rendering](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/rendering.md)**\
How to render a PDF page to a bitmap or thumbnail

**[Instant JSON](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/document-engine/json.md)**\
Learn how to store annotation data in JSON format

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## Related pages

- [Demo: Document Engine](/guides/document-engine/demo.md)
- [Changelog for Document Engine](/guides/document-engine/changelog.md)
- [Download Document Engine](/guides/document-engine/downloads.md)
- [Example projects](/guides/document-engine/example-projects.md)
- [Document Engine PDF server](/guides/document-engine.md)
- [Knowledge base](/guides/document-engine/kb.md)
- [Nightly build](/guides/document-engine/nightly.md)
- [Troubleshooting](/guides/document-engine/troubleshoot.md)
- [PDF rendering server](/guides/document-engine/rendering.md)