# Overview

Practical how-to guides for common tasks

Canonical URL: https://docs.paradoc.dev/guides/

Step-by-step guides for working with Paradoc.

| Guide                                     | Description                                                             |
| ----------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Forms](/guides/forms)                    | Create, fill, and render a lease agreement                              |
| [Documents](/guides/documents)            | Create a simple document artifact                                       |
| [Checklists](/guides/checklists)          | Create, fill, and render a checklist                                    |
| [Bundles](/guides/bundles)                | Package multiple artifacts together                                     |
| [Text layers](/guides/text-layers)        | Working with text-based (Markdown, HTML, plain text) layers             |
| [PDF layers](/guides/pdf-layers)          | Working with PDF form fields and bindings                               |
| [React layers](/guides/react-layers)      | Render and seal a form through a React composition                      |
| [Sealing](/guides/sealing-and-conversion) | Prepare a canonical PDF, its hash, and its signature fields for signing |
| [Packets](/guides/packets)                | Merge a bundle's parts into one PDF and seal it for signing             |

{platformApiDocsEnabled ? <p><a href="/guides/hosted-sealing-and-conversion">Hosted Sealing</a> — Seal and convert documents with the Paradoc Platform API.</p> : null}

{platformApiDocsEnabled ? <p><a href="/guides/platform-access">Platform access</a> — Choose organization roles and API-key permissions for document content.</p> : null}

{platformApiDocsEnabled ? <p><a href="/guides/registry-versions">Registry versions</a>: Deprecate, yank, or delete a version you published.</p> : null}