Draw your signature with a finger or mouse, type it, or use a photo of it. Drag it where it belongs and download the signed PDF. Nothing is uploaded.
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Draw your signature in the box
Drag on the page to place your signature
Files are not uploaded - everything happens in your browser.
Drawing is the one most people want. The pad takes a finger on a phone or tablet and a mouse or trackpad on a computer, the line is smoothed as you draw so it does not look jagged, and the result is trimmed tightly to the ink with a transparent background. Draw it two or three times until one looks like your real signature.
Typing is quicker and perfectly acceptable for internal paperwork. Your name is drawn in a handwriting-style font, with the same transparent background.
An image is best if you already have a good signature: sign a white sheet of paper, photograph it, and choose the file here. A transparent PNG looks best, but a photograph on white works well too, particularly on a white page.
The preview shows the last page of your document, because that is where signatures usually go. Drag anywhere on the preview to move the signature there, and use the width slider to size it. The position is stored as a fraction of the page, so what you see is what you get no matter the zoom level or screen size.
You can sign the last page, the page you are looking at, or every page - the last of which is what some contracts and school forms require.
The opacity control exists for a specific case: signing over a printed line or a box where you want the paper underneath to stay visible. For ordinary signing, leave it at full strength.
This places a picture of your signature on the page and flattens it into the document. In legal terms it is an electronic signature of the simplest kind: the same thing as signing a printout and scanning it, which is what it replaces.
It is not a digital signature in the cryptographic sense. There is no certificate, no identity check and no tamper-evident seal, so a reader will not show a blue banner saying who signed and whether the document has changed since.
For most everyday paperwork - a rental agreement, a school form, a delivery note, an internal approval - that is exactly what is being asked for. For anything where the law or the counterparty specifically requires a qualified or certificate-based signature, you need a service built for that, and we would rather say so than let you find out later.
The original pages are copied unchanged and the signature is drawn on top as an image. Text stays text, links keep working, and the rest of the file is not re-compressed, so the document is identical apart from the signature you added.
The signature is part of the page content once it is saved. It cannot be dragged off, selected, or deleted in a reader, in the same way a stamp on paper cannot be peeled off.
A password-protected PDF has to be unlocked first, and Unlock PDF will do that if you know the password.
Files are not uploaded - everything happens in your browser. The documents people sign are contracts, agreements, bank forms and letters, and your signature itself is a piece of personal data worth protecting.
Both stay on your device. The signature is drawn on a canvas in this tab, the PDF is assembled in memory, and the finished file goes straight to your downloads. Nothing is stored between visits: close the tab and your signature is gone from the page, so draw it again next time or keep an image of it somewhere you control.
That last point is a deliberate choice. Saving a signature in browser storage would be convenient and would also leave your signature sitting on the device for anything else to find.
If you sign things often, the practical compromise is to keep one good PNG of your signature in a folder you trust, and choose it here each time. You get the convenience without a copy of your signature living inside a web page.
One more thing worth doing before you send a signed document on: open the PDF and look at the signature at full size. A signature drawn with a finger on a small phone screen can look thinner on an A4 page than it did in the pad, and the width slider is there to fix that in a second.
Choose the file, draw or type your signature, drag it into place on the preview, and press Sign. The signed PDF downloads straight away.
It is an electronic signature of the simplest kind, equivalent to signing a printout. Many everyday documents accept exactly that. It is not a certificate-based digital signature, so check what the recipient requires.
Yes. Choose "every page" instead of the last page before pressing Sign.
Yes. A transparent PNG looks best, but a photograph of a signature on white paper works well on a white page.
No. It exists only while the page is open. Nothing is written to storage, which also means you draw it again next time.
Not in an ordinary reader. It becomes part of the page, like a stamp on paper.
Remove the password first with Unlock PDF, then sign the unlocked copy.
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