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title: Transcoders & Non-JSON Documents
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# Transcoders & Non-JSON Documents

> Libcouchbase operates on bare memory, and does not have a transcoders API. Custom transcoders and serializers provide support for applications needing to perform advanced operations, including supporting non-JSON data, and are available in the other SDKs, including those that sit on top of LCB. 

Libcouchbase operates on bare memory, and does not have a transcoders API. Custom transcoders and serializers provide support for applications needing to perform advanced operations, including supporting non-JSON data, and are available in the other SDKs, including those that sit on top of LCB.

See the _Transcoders & Non-JSON Documents_ pages for [Node.js](#3.0@nodejs-sdk:howtos:transcoders-nonjson.adoc).