This document provides an overview of the Symfony components created by Fabien Potencier. It describes that the components are standalone libraries for PHP 5.3 that have no dependencies between them. The components include Event Dispatcher, Output Escaper, YAML, Routing, Console, Dependency Injection Container, Request Handler, and Templating. The document discusses how to download and install the components via Git, SVN, or nightly builds. It also covers autoloading classes using the UniversalClassLoader and describes some of the individual components in more detail like Console, Routing, and Testing.