diff --git a/examples/03_visualize-ner-manual.py b/examples/03_visualize-ner-manual.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..61f4b69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/03_visualize-ner-manual.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+"""
+Example of using manual=True for visualize_ner.
+"""
+import spacy_streamlit
+import streamlit as st
+
+st.title("My cool app")
+
+doc = [{
+    "text": "But Google is starting from behind.",
+    "ents": [{"start": 4, "end": 10, "label": "ORG"}],
+    "title": None
+}]
+
+spacy_streamlit.visualize_ner(
+    doc,
+    labels=["ORG"],
+    show_table=False,
+    title="Persons, dates and locations",
+    manual=True
+)
diff --git a/spacy_streamlit/visualizer.py b/spacy_streamlit/visualizer.py
index 59b3795..d5fea4d 100644
--- a/spacy_streamlit/visualizer.py
+++ b/spacy_streamlit/visualizer.py
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ def visualize_parser(
 
 
 def visualize_ner(
-    doc: spacy.tokens.Doc,
+    doc: Union[spacy.tokens.Doc, List[Dict[str, str]]],
     *,
     labels: Sequence[str] = tuple(),
     attrs: List[str] = NER_ATTRS,
@@ -170,13 +170,20 @@ def visualize_ner(
     title: Optional[str] = "Named Entities",
     colors: Dict[str, str] = {},
     key: Optional[str] = None,
+    manual: Optional[bool] = False,
 ) -> None:
     """Visualizer for named entities."""
     if title:
         st.header(title)
 
-    labels = labels or [ent.label_ for ent in doc.ents]
-
+    if manual:
+        if show_table:
+            st.warning("When the parameter 'manual' is set to True, the parameter 'show_table' must be set to False.")
+        if not isinstance(doc, list):
+            st.warning("When the parameter 'manual' is set to True, the parameter 'doc' must be of type 'list', not 'spacy.tokens.Doc'.")
+    else:
+        labels = labels or [ent.label_ for ent in doc.ents]
+ 
     if not labels:
         st.warning("The parameter 'labels' should not be empty or None.")
     else:
@@ -188,7 +195,7 @@ def visualize_ner(
             key=f"{key}_ner_label_select",
         )
         html = displacy.render(
-            doc, style="ent", options={"ents": label_select, "colors": colors}
+            doc, style="ent", options={"ents": label_select, "colors": colors}, manual=manual
         )
         style = "<style>mark.entity { display: inline-block }</style>"
         st.write(f"{style}{get_html(html)}", unsafe_allow_html=True)