Developer Guides

Welcome to the PSPDFKit 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 PSPDFKit’s frontend SDKs on Web, iOS, and Android.

If you’re brand new to PSPDFKit, have a look at our get started guides to quickly add PDF generation, editing, and redaction to your application.

Guides

Configuration
How to customize some of Document Engine’s options

File Management
How to migrate and create documents for Document Engine

Deployment
How to deploy on Kubernetes via a Helm chart

Management
How to use the built-in dashboard

Monitoring
How to use Document Engine’s monitoring capabilities

Viewer (UI Integration)
Learn about the optional integrated document viewers

PDF Generation
How to generate PDFs and fillable PDF forms

Conversion
How to convert from Microsoft Office to PDF and more

OCR
How to make scans searchable, extract text from images, and more

Annotations
How to import and flatten annotations, and more

Forms
How to create a PDF form, fill form fields, extract data, and more

Editor
How to merge documents, manipulate or add pages, and more

Signatures
How to add digital signatures to PDF documents

Redaction
How to redact content programmatically

Extraction
How to extract content and structured data from documents

Optimization
How to compress and shrink PDF documents

PDF/A
How to convert into PDF/A and validate conformance

MS Office
How to view, convert, and generate MS Office documents

Rendering
How to render a PDF page to a bitmap or thumbnail

Instant JSON
Learn how to store annotation data in JSON format