The Synopsis Processing Pipeline
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## The Synopsis Processing Pipeline

Synopsis provides a large number of processor types that all generate or operate on data extracted from source code. Parsers parse source code from a variety of languages, linkers combine multiple IRs, resolving cross-references between symbols, and formatters format the ASG into a variety of output media.

A typical processing-pipeline to generate API Documentation with source-code cross-references.

All these Processor types share a common design, to make it easy to combine them into pipelines, and add custom processors. For more documentation about this architecture, see the section called “Composing A Pipeline”.

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