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title: "Publish engine"
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description: "The Publish Engine is a core PageSeeder component that executes customizable Ant scripts for import, export, publish, and process operations. It can be distributed across servers to handle CPU-intensive tasks like document composition and transformation."
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# Publish engine

A key component of the PageSeeder solution, the Publish Engine handles all import, export, publish and some process operations by executing customizable Ant scripts. It is included as part of each [PageSeeder server](/reference/glossary/pageseeder_server.md), but one PageSeeder server can use the Publish Engine on a different PageSeeder server so CPU-intensive tasks, such as document composition or transformation, can be distributed.

Further information is available, *see* [Publishing](/guide/publishing.md).