# New Product Announcement: DS Server > This week, we will start the beta program with selected users for a brand new product. DS Server is a document processing backend server that can be easily deployed to your infrastructure to create, edit, view and process documents. - **Author:** Bjoern Meyer - **Published:** 2020-10-12 - **Modified:** 2025-11-16 - **Description:** This week, we will start the beta program with selected users for a brand new product. DS Server is a document processing backend server that can be easily deployed to your infrastructure to create, edit, view and process documents. - **2 min read** (360 words) - **Tags:** - Angular - ASP.NET Core - DS Server - Release - **Web URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/10/12/new-product-announcement-ds-server/ - **LLMs URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/10/12/new-product-announcement-ds-server/llms.txt - **LLMs-Full URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/10/12/new-product-announcement-ds-server/llms-full.txt --- With a first group of users, we are starting a beta program for a brand new product: **DS Server**. ### Document Services "Out-of-the-Box" With **DS Server**, you can integrate professional document editing and processing into any web application. Provide your users an MS Word compatible document editor and a lightweight document viewer. Merge data into MS Word templates and create Adobe PDF documents programmatically using a powerful document backend Web API. The "out-of-the-box" backend server can be easily deployed and hosted in your infrastructure. Your web apps simply connect securely using OAuth to the ready-to-use DS Server to edit, view, annotate and process documents. ### How Does it Work? Your first application using DS Server can be implemented within minutes. All you need is to install DS Server on a machine or to deploy DS Server to your cloud provider and to connect the client-side packages to your new *Document Services* backend. ### What's Included? - **Document Editor**Connect client-side NuGet, npm packages or pure JavaScript to DS Server and edit documents in an MS Word inspired interface with a unique WYSIWYG rendering technology. - **Document Viewer**View MS Word and Adobe PDF documents in a lightweight viewer and add collaboration, annotation and electronic signature features to your apps. - **Document Processing API**Using the document processing Web API, merge JSON data into MS Word compatible templates created using the document editor. Create PDF documents dynamically on DS Server from any of your applications. ### Easy Deployment, Setup and Security DS Server can be easily deployed to your on-premise or cloud infrastructure. Once installed, you can use the full TX Text Control document processing technology with your own hosted backend server. The integrated security, based on the industry-standard OAuth, allows you a secure usage of document editing and processing functionality in all of your web applications, in any language deployed to any platform. ![Deployment](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2020/10/12/a/assets/ds-deployment.webp "Deployment") ### Enter our Beta Program If you are interested in getting your hands on DS Server, simply [contact us](https://www.textcontrol.com/contact/) and ask about the second beta round. [Contact Us ](https://www.textcontrol.com/contact/) --- ## About Bjoern Meyer As CEO, Bjoern is the visionary behind our strategic direction and business development, bridging the gap between our customers and engineering teams. His deep passion for coding and web technologies drives the creation of innovative products. If you're at a tech conference, be sure to stop by our booth - you'll most likely meet Bjoern in person. With an advanced graduate degree (Dipl. Inf.) in Computer Science, specializing in AI, from the University of Bremen, Bjoern brings significant expertise to his role. In his spare time, Bjoern enjoys running, paragliding, mountain biking, and playing the piano. - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjoernmeyer/) - [X](https://x.com/txbjoern) - [GitHub](https://github.com/bjoerntx) --- ## Series - **New Product Announcement: DS Server** (this article) - [Preview: Using DocumentEditor for DS Server in ASP.NET Core](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/10/14/preview-documenteditor-for-ds-server/llms.txt) --- ## Related Posts - [Announcing TX Text Control DS Server 5.0](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2026/03/12/announcing-tx-text-control-ds-server-5-0/llms.txt) - [Introducing DS Server 4.0: Linux-Ready and Container-Friendly](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2025/04/30/introducing-ds-server-4-linux-ready-and-container-friendly/llms.txt) - [See Text Control at DEVintersection Fall 2022 in Las Vegas](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2022/11/15/see-text-control-at-devintersection-fall-2022-in-las-vegas/llms.txt) - [JavaScript: Avoid Flickering and Visual Updates by Grouping Undo Steps](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2022/07/25/javascript-avoid-flickering-and-visual-updates-by-grouping-undo-steps/llms.txt) - [Document Viewer: Uploading Signatures](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2022/02/24/document-viewer-uploading-signatures/llms.txt) - [Impressions from BASTA! 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