The document discusses various string manipulation techniques in Python such as getting the length of a string, traversing strings using loops, slicing strings, immutable nature of strings, using the 'in' operator to check for substrings, and comparing strings. Key string manipulation techniques covered include getting the length of a string using len(), extracting characters using indexes and slices, traversing strings with for and while loops, checking for substrings with the 'in' operator, and comparing strings.