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# Post Processing Group Post Processing Group

This section describes the methods which can be used to retrieve envelope documents from the Docusign system. Docusign maintains a separate certificate document with each envelope document that contains important origination and landmark events pertinent to the document.

The functions in this group are:

[RequestCertificate](/docs/esign-soap-api/reference/post-processing-group/requestcertificate) - Returns the signing certificate, which details the specific attributes of the participants and landmark events of the signing transaction, for an envelope.

[RequestDocumentPDFs](/docs/esign-soap-api/reference/post-processing-group/requestdocumentpdfs) - Returns a collection of all of the documents in an envelope. This method differs from RequestPDF in that this method returns individual documents, while RequestPDF returns all of the documents combined into a single, contiguous PDF. Additionally, the RequestDocumentPDFs method returns the Signing Certificate pdf document, which details the specific attributes of the participants and landmark events of the signing transaction.

[RequestDocumentPDFsEx](/docs/esign-soap-api/reference/post-processing-group/requestdocumentpdfsex) - Returns an extended version the collection of all of the documents from RequestDocumentPDFs. Extensions include originating document ID and document type. Available only in the 3.0 API.

[RequestDocumentPDFsRecipientsView](/docs/esign-soap-api/reference/post-processing-group/requestdocumentpdfsrecipientsview) - This method requests the recipient’s view of the document PDFs in an envelope.

[DocumentPDF](/docs/esign-soap-api/reference/post-processing-group/documentpdf) - Queries the envelope and returns the Document PDFs for the envelope.

[RequestPDF](/docs/esign-soap-api/reference/post-processing-group/requestpdf) - Queries the envelope and return its final PDF.

[RequestPDFNoWaterMark](/docs/esign-soap-api/reference/post-processing-group/requestpdfnowatermark) - Queries the envelope and returns the PDF without showing the watermark.

[RequestPDFWithCert](/docs/esign-soap-api/reference/post-processing-group/requestpdfwithcert) - Queries the envelope and returns the PDF with the signing certificate.

[EnvelopePDF](/docs/esign-soap-api/reference/post-processing-group/envelopepdf) - Queries the envelope and returns envelope information.

[TransferEnvelope](/docs/esign-soap-api/reference/post-processing-group/transferenvelope) - Transfers ownership of the specified envelope to the specified User in the specified Account. Returns a Boolean to indicate success of the operation.

[ExportAuthoritativeCopy](/docs/esign-soap-api/reference/post-processing-group/exportauthoritativecopy) - Exports an Authoritative Copy envelope from Docusign. Returns an encrypted collection for all the documents and an export transaction ID for a given envelope. To decrypt the documents and remove the actual Authoritative Copy from Docusign the method AcknowledgeAuthoritativeCopyExport must be called. Available only in version 3.0 of the API.