Instant sync and collaboration
Nutrient Instant is our prebuilt solution for synchronizing annotations across multiple concurrent users, devices, or sessions. It offers developers a self-hosted solution that handles document viewing on any platform, data management, conflict resolution, version tracking, diffing, and merging. It’s a licensable component that’s included as part of Document Engine, which can be used together with Web SDK.
Nutrient SDKs are trusted by world’s most popular applications, including Autodesk, Disney, UBS, Dropbox, IBM, and Lufthansa. Nutrient’s powerful solutions enable seamless integration of PDF editing features into your applications, delivering reliability and efficiency to world-class enterprises.
Instant sync and collaboration is available when using the Web SDK with Document Engine in server-backed operational mode.
Key capabilities
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Real time — Sync edits and annotations to a server or across devices
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Self-hosted — Maintain complete control over your data
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Device agnostic — Consistent UX across web, mobile, and desktop clients
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Conflict resolution — Handle simultaneous concurrent edits
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Secure authentication — Easy integration with existing systems
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Data management — Separate layer for annotation and form data
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User permissions — Fine-grained control over what users can see or edit
Guides for Instant synchronization
Get started with Nutrient Instant
How to get started with Nutrient Instant
Authentication
Learn how authentication works
Instant layers
Learn about Instant layers and how they can be used
Comments
How to view, add, and delete comments in PDF documents
Permissions overview
Learn about permissions and how they’re configured with JWTs
Content ownership
Learn how content ownership changes during the document lifecycle
Set permissions
How to set document permissions using JWTs
Edit permissions
How to edit permissions of annotations, form fields, and comments
Example of a permissions implementation
See an example implementation for a tenant and landlord application