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# Collaborate on PDFs and DOCX using JavaScript with WebViewer

Collaborate on PDFs and DOCX using JavaScript Viewer. Enable commenting, user roles, and real-time collaboration with WebViewer's document collaboration library. Export/import annotations easily and s

WebViewer provides out-of-the-box commenting, ability to setup user roles and permissions, ability to mention or tag users in conversation on all document formats including PDFs, Office (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX), images, videos, and other [formats](/web/what-is-webviewer/file-format-support.md).

<a href="https://showcase.apryse.com/document-collaboration" class="button primary">Lauch demo</a><a href="/web/collaboration/basics.md" class="button primary">Learn more</a>

## Samples

* [Realtime collaboration using SQLite](https://github.com/ApryseSDK/webviewer-realtime-collaboration-sqlite3-sample)
* [Realtime collaboration using Firebase](/web/get-started/samples/realtime-collaboration.md)

## Blogs

* [How to Set Up Instant Commenting for Real-Time Document Collaboration in React Applications](https://apryse.com/blog/react-instant-commenting-webviewer-sdk)
* [Success Story: How Uniscope used Apryse to Power Collaboration on Aviation Manuals](https://apryse.com/blog/customers/how-pdftron-powers-collaboration-for-uniscope)

## Next steps

[Collaboration basics](/web/collaboration/basics.md) Learn the basic concepts of implementing collaboration in your workflow

[Setup WebViewer for collaboration](/web/collaboration/realtime-collaboration-setup.md) To setup WebViewer to manage a server and client realtime collaboration.

[Realtime collaboration server](/web/collaboration/realtime-collaboration-server.md) To setup a database server to trigger events for create/modify/delete operations.

[Realtime collaboration client](/web/collaboration/realtime-collaboration-client.md) To setup a client application to listen or trigger events for create/modify/delete operations.


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