How to sign an online PDF document

Choose from a variety of investments ranging from signature, text and initials to date and check boxes. Change the document (s) by freely sliding the locations and browsing the police and color options. If you have selected Sign In step 1, you will be invited to sign at this stage.

Sign a PDF without printing it: free solutions

You would like to fill out a PDF form, sign it and send it by e-mail ? Demonstration with free apps Adobe Fill & Sign and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android smartphones.

• Fill in a form in a web browser
• Filling out a form with Acrobat Reader for Windows/Mac
• Sign a form with Acrobat Reader for Windows/Mac
• Save your signature in an image file
• Fill out and sign a form with acrobat reader for mobiles
• Fill and sign a form with Adobe Fill & Sign for Mobiles
• Secure your electronic signature

More and more companies and organizations facilitate your procedures by disseminating their forms to be completed in PDF format. In a few minutes, directly on your computer or smartphone, you can download, fill out and sign the PDF form, then return it by email. A truly practical option and a huge time saving: no need to go get the form or print it, fill it in the pen to send it back by post !

However, all PDF players do not allow to fill and sign these forms simply, and free of charge. Adobe applications – the creator of the PDF – are references.

• The free application Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Works on Windows, MacOS, iOS, iPados and Android: this PDF player is used to display the documents, annotate them, comment, share them, but also to fill out and sign forms for free (other options are paid).
• For iPhone/iPad (iOS, iPados) and Android mobile devices, Adobe offers a second free application, only dedicated to filling and signing PDF forms, Adobe Fill & Sign, whose particularities we will also see.
• In some cases, the author of the form has provided for the nature and length of all the fields to be filled (text fields, check boxes, etc.)). Your application detects an “interactive” form and facilitates the entry.
• If the PDF is not interactive, the application provides you with all the tools to add fields and enter your name or check a box, for example, and finally sign the document.

How to fill out a PDF form with Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari ?

All web browsers are now capable of displaying PDF. When you click on a PDF, it is likely that yours (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, etc.) directly displays the document in one of its tabs. If these browsers are very correct to quickly consult PDF, they do not allow – or partially – to fill and sign forms.

If they detect that you download a form to fill out, some of these browsers automatically offer you to open it in another application possibly installed on your computer. But it’s not always the case. The best is therefore to download the PDF form in a folder of your hard drive then fill it and sign it in Adobe Acrobat Reader or one of its competitors, like Foxit Reader.

• If a PDF form that you would like to fill is displayed in a tab of your Internet browser, locate in the upper right corner of the window an icon for Download, Save Or Save as The file in the folder Downloads. You can then open it via the application of your choice, for example a click of the right button on the file, choice Open with> Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, For example.

• In Safari for macOS, The icon to download the PDF appears by dragging the mouse pointer to the bottom and in the center of the window. The file will be saved in your folder Downloads.
• If you prefer that your browser no longer displays PDF in a tab but that it downloads or opens them directly in the PDF player installed on your computer, for example Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, go to the Options Or Settings browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox), type the word Pdf In the search field: your software lists the parameters related to PDFs ..

• In the Settings of Chrome, after research on Pdf, click on Sites parameters, then on PDF documents. The option to check or uncheck is called Download PDF files instead of opening them automatically in Chrome.

• In the Settings from Edge, after research on Pdf, click on PDF documents then on Always open external PDF files.

• In the Options of Firefox, after a search on Pdf, You have the choice between: Open the PDF in Firefox; ask what to do; Save it in your file Downloads ; Open it in the default application; specify in which application the PDF should open.

How to fill out a PDF form on Windows and Mac with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC ?

The most advanced interactive PDF forms may in particular contain:

• Text fields (to enter your name and first name, etc.) to be completed in a free zone or by writing each character in a box (this is called a field in “comb” format),
• Option boxes (also called radio buttons: only one choice possible among those offered),
• Check boxes (several possible choices),
• Simple or drop -down lists,
• buttons (to print or reset the form, for example),
• dates,
• Calculated fields,
• paraphs (your initials) and signatures.

Adobe’s free pdf reader manages all these possibilities and many others. Some PDF forms that you download are not (or that partially) interactive: the application will not detect all the fields to enter, but that will not prevent you from using the Acrobat Reader filling functions to add where good you appears to be input fields in the form, check boxes and sign the form (if the creator of the PDF authorized it).

• Install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for your Windows or MacOS version by pressing the button Download Acrobat Reader. Other optional utilities and applications are not essential.
• If you have a Adobe Id (Free account or linked to a paying subscription) or if you want to create one (which is not compulsory here), you can in particular save signatures in Adobe Cloud and have them on all your devices, share documents, etc. In the following demonstration, we are not connected.
• Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.

• In the menu Sign, click on Fill and sign.

• Another method: in the vertical panel Tools, to the right of the Acrobat Reader window, click on the tool Fill and sign. If you find that this panel occupies too much space on the screen, also reduce its size by clicking on the triangle.

• If you went through the panel Tools, A screen asks you which action launch: click on Fill and sign tool.
• Do not sign The document as long as you plan to make changes: in Acrobat Reader, sign a document deliberately freezes the signature and the fields already entered (the others remain accessible), to prevent the recipient from being able to modify them.

• Some PDFs immediately indicate to you by a message that is an interactive form. The author can restrict the input options, all the tools are not available in your toolbar. Sometimes you will not be able, for example, to add text elsewhere than in the fields provided, change the size of the characters seized, etc.

• If they are official forms, check before any entry if entry instructions are specified, to avoid seeing your request rejected ! For example: write everything in capital letters, in black and with the accents. Refer to this article to type capital cups on computers and smartphones.

• If the PDF document has been designed as an interactive form, in Acrobat Reader, the simple fact of passing the mouse pointer on a field of the form tells you in light blue the presence of the entry field, or a box that can be checked with a click, etc. The mouse pointer changes and tells you.
• Click in a text field to type information.

• If the author of the PDF allowed it, a small palette of blue tools is displayed above the entry field on which you clicked, allowing you (from left to right): de reduce Or get fat the size of the characters (icons a), DELETE The field (basket icon), pass from a seizure field normal to a field “comb” and vice versa (see below), or, a click on Suspension points, to go to the other palette of tools to access annotations and symbols (cross, check, circle, dash, chip, etc.).

• When each letter must be tapped in a box, we speak of a “comb” text field (or “combined field”): acrobat reader guides your entry and, playing on the space between the characters, it distributes the characters in the area so that everyone holds in a box.

• If the comb in format is not activated for a field (or if you have deactivated it with a click on the icon AB), Acrobat Reader displays the raw text without trying to distribute the characters in width. Click on the icon AB to switch to a comb format.

• In a comb field, catch the handle at the right end of the field and slide it to the left or right to vary the spacing of the characters and keep each letter in a box.
  With some PDFs, if the letters are definitely not placed in the boxes, you can go into normal entry field rather than comb and/or change the size of the characters and/or add one or two spaces between each character.

• For move A field (if the author of the PDF allows), catch it on the far left, near the vertical line of dotted gray.

• If the form does not provide for text entry for certain fields, click on the icon at the top of the window on the icon AB (Add a text), then add the field to the page to the desired location. Even add a cross, a check mark, a circle, a dash, a chip in an uninteractive form (certain protected documents do not authorize it).
• To deselect the tool in use, click on the icon arrow. To its right, the icon hand is used to scroll through any direction a PDF document that is not fully displayed on the screen.

• The icon representing a large black round is used to change the color of the selected element or the next element that you will add to the form. When in doubt, in official forms, prefer black.

• For Save the fully completed or input form, click on the icon representing a disk top left of the window, or press the two keys Ctrl+s.

• When you request the recording of the PDF for the first time, Acrobat Reader offers theSave as. Click on the first file suggested to save it in its original folder, or if necessary on the blue button for Select another file. Then specify the name of the PDF file: add it for example the suffix _completed To keep the original intact.
• As long as you have not signed the PDF, you can modify the content of the fields already entered by clicking on it.
• If you prefer to leave the form in canceling all the seizure and keeping the original intact, click on File> Close the file or press the two keys Ctrl+W.

• If you have finished entering the form or want to interrupt it to take it later, click, to the right of the window, on the button Close.

• If you click on the button right Following, Acrobat Reader allows you to save (under) the PDF file on its online servers and send a link to this file to other people, who will not be able to modify it. This service is paid or accessible free of charge of a limited number of times, after creating a free Adobe account.
• If you have clicked on Following, As your form is not yet signed, click for the moment on the closing cross at the top right of the window. If you have saved your completed PDF form, you can reopen it, sign it and send it to a website, or even another user to finish filling it. Now let’s see how to sign it ..

How to sign a free PDF with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for Windows and Mac ?

The very simple versions of electronic signature presented here do not offer the best guarantees of authentication or measures against the falsification of the document after signature. Refer to our section Secure your electronic signature If you are considering a solution, possibly paid, offering enhanced security. Adobe software and technologies (Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, Adobe Sign) are, in any case, valid for any type of digital signature, from the simplest to the most demanding, especially for a Qualified electronic signature based on solutions validated by the European Union.

Different free PDF players – such as Foxit Reader – and online services allow you to sign a PDF. Here, let’s see how to proceed in Windows and MacOS with Adobe’s PDF reader.

• Download Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for Windows and MacOS if it is not already done.
• Connection with a Adobe Id (Free or paid account) is optional, it allows in particular to record signatures in the cloud, to share documents, etc. Here we are not connected.
• Attention : as long as you don’t signnot A PDF form with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, you can save the file, close it and open it later to modify the already filled fields. Once the form has been signed and saved, the fields already filled and the signature are no longer editable. The other fields that you have not yet informed, they remain modifiable. It is also possible to place other signatures in the document.

• You could therefore, for example, fill in the “part A” with an amicable observation of water damage, sign it, then transmit the form to your neighbor to fill out and sign his “part B”, so that everyone can then transmit the document filled and co-signed to his insurer, if he accepts it in this form. If you are not in very good terms with your neighbor, a certification authority could possibly validate the authenticity of the document (read below)).
• In Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for Windows and MacOS, open the PDF form and Fill it completely, at least for the part that concerns you.
• In the menu Sign, click on Fill and sign.

• Click on the icon Sign at the top of the window.

• Acrobat Reader offers you eitherAdd a signature, eitherAdd a initial. A initial is an abbreviated signature, generally reduced to your initials, that we often affix at the bottom of each page of a contract to signify that all pages are accepted (or at other places in the document to approve erasures or overloads). Choose for exampleAdd a signature.

• For the signature, Adobe Reader offers you, thanks to the first choice Type, to enter your name on the keyboard, which he writes with a font simulating handwriting. As soon as you type a first character, the drop -down list Change the style appears to the right to allow you to change the handwritten font.

• The second choice, Trace, Allows you to draw your signature in the central area. But it is not very easy to the mouse ! If you are not happy with the result, click on the right on To erase and start again.

• The third choice, Picture, Allows you to load in Acrobat Reader an image file comprising your signature and stored on your hard disk in JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF or Tiff format. Follow our advice below to scan your handwritten signature. Image reframing is not compulsory, the Adobe application takes care of it provided that the photo of the signature is “clean” sufficiently.
• Whatever the method chosen, before pressing the button Apply, Check the box Save the signature To find it the following times. Uncheck it to use it only once.

• Place the signature at the appropriate location in the PDF form. To enlarge or reduce its size, click on one of the icons HAS Or catch the blue handle In the lower right corner of the signature. As long as you have not saved a document containing a signature (or a initial), you can still reposition it, change its color or even delete it (icon Basket)).

• If the signature of the image file has not been drawn with black ink and the form requires this color, select the signature in the form (which assumes that the document has not yet been saved), click on the round icon color selection, uncheck the box Keep the native color of the signat. and check the black color in the palette.

• If you checked the box Save the signature, You will find it the following times a click on the option Sign To replace it in another PDF. It will also be associated with your free or paid Adobe account if you are currently connected to Acrobat Reader: you will therefore also find it in Acrobat Reader and Adobe Fill & Sign on your smartphone, for example.

• For Add a initial, Proceed in the same way as for a signature, choosing to Type your initials, to Trace (mouse, finger, stylus, etc.) on your computer, or by selecting a file Picture on your hard drive.
• Check the box Pair Before pressing the button Apply If you plan to place this initials on several pages of the PDF or find it the following times.
• As for the signature, you can change the size, color and position of the initiaries already placed as long as you have not saved the PDF form.

• If you do not want to keep the signature and/or theo -registered initiating, click the button Sign Then on the no entry, to the right of the signature or paraph.
• Once a signature or an initial is affixed to a document, if you record it, all the fields already filled are frozen and the signatures and initiaries already placed can no longer be modified. A malicious person could however overload them, or even hide them by placing over a white form, for example. These subterfuges are obviously not possible if you entrust the form completed to a “trust authority”, which freezes, horodes the PDF and plays the role of intermediary between co-contractors, as we explain later.
• You can now transmit the PDF filled and signed by e-mail.

• In the menu Editing of Acrobat Reader, the Preferences of the application devoted to Signatures give access to many options, mostly reserved for users with an Adobe account and/or a certification solution.

How to save a signature in an image file ?

If you want to convert your real handwritten signature, drawn to the pen on a sheet of paper, into an image file, in order to sign a form on your computer, here are two solutions, with an all-in-one printer or a smartphone.

• On a white leaf, sign in black ink and in the center of the sheet – to avoid photographing or scanning the edges – with a felt or a penful pen.
• If you have a-scanner printer, scan this page in the image format (JPG or PNG, for example), you will get a better result than to photograph it with your smartphone. Your scanning application surely allows you to reframe the scan or to lighten the image, erase dust, etc., Before saving the image.
• Otherwise, photograph the sheet with your smartphone or touch pad. The page must be well lit, and no shadow must cover the signature. Too bad if your shadow is visible in other places in the cliché, the photo will be cropped anyway.
• Evidence possibly options for the consultation application for iOS and Android photos to crop the snapshot, rotate it or lighten a slightly dark shot.
• The transfer to the computer of the photo taken with the phone can be carried out by e-mail, by USB cable, by Bluetooth link.
• If the image is of correct quality, it is not necessary to crop it, the Adobe apps for computer will take care of it.

• Once the image file has been recovered in a Windows 10 folder, you can also rotate it, crop it, etc., With the photo application provided by Microsoft to consult the images.

How to fill out and sign a PDF form with Adobe Acrobat Reader for Android and iPhone ?

On your mobile or your iOS or Android tablet, install the free adobe application to consult PDF, annotate them, fill in forms and sign them. If you are missing on your smartphone and you have to make a choice between Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe Fill & Sign, note that the Reader offers many more functions, which go beyond the filling of forms.

• Download Adobe Acrobat Reader on the Google Play Store (for Android smartphones and tablets).
• Download Adobe Acrobat Reader on the Apple App Store (for iPhone and iPad under iOS and iPados).
• Connection to an Adobe account is not compulsory. If you connect with your Adobe ID (free account or linked to a paying subscription), you have access to additional options, such as the recording of a signature common to all your Adobe devices and applications, Document sharing, etc. For the example here, we are disconnected.
• Once the PDF has been recovered from your smartphone, for example by downloading it from a website or recovering the attachment of an email, launch Acrobat Reader.

• If the PDF form does not open directly in Acrobat Reader, or if it is not visible on the home screen, touch the icon Files. You will find your form either in the section On this device, either in Browse more files.

• Once the form is open, touch the Round blue button at the bottom of the screen (representing a pencil).

• Select Fill and sign in the menu.
• If the application returns an error message or if it does not offer the option Fill and sign, Try to open the form in Adobe Fill & Sign. In Adobe Reader, you can possibly fill it with the tools of Comment of Acrobat Reader, but you will not be able to sign it.
• Before starting to fill it out, check if the form requires a seizure in capital letters and with accents, for example. Capital letters are obtained by touching the key twice Uppercase virtual keyboard, both on iOS and on Android.

• Click on a form of the form to fill it with text, or on a box for check. Like on a computer, you can enter raw text.

• Or click on Suspension points In the mini-bar of tools to choose a text entering in the “comb format” by clicking on the icon AB : the application will distribute the characters entered so that they each occupy a box of the input zone. The other icons of this palette of tools are explicit (check, cross, etc.)). The icon LM, It is used to convert the selected field into a initial (prefer the method presented later).

• In a field of text in the comb format, catch the small handle on the right of the field in order to modify the intellectual and distribute the letters more easily in the boxes.
• Hold the pressure on a field and then move it.

• The two icons HAS serve to reduce or grow the size of the selected element (text, check, signature, etc.)). The icon Basket is used to delete a field in the form. The icon feather pen is used to transform the current field into a signature (interest is not obvious, etc.).

• If the application detects the fields of an interactive form, buttons Previous, Following And Reset the field are visible in the Reader application for iOS.

• . or buttons And Reset, In the Reader application for Android, appear to allow you to quickly switch from one field to the other.

• Once the form is completed, at the bottom of the screen, click on the icon Sign (representing a pen) to create and/or affix a signature or initial.

• Choose for example Create a signature.

• You can then: either Trace Your signature on your finger or with a stylus (touch, right, To erase If you are not happy with the result),

• either recover a Picture of the signature stored on your phone (with the possibility of rotating it and reframing it by moving the four edges),
• either use L‘Camera of your smartphone or tablet to photograph your signature drawn on paper. Once the photo is taken, reappear it by grabbing the handles all over and touch To end.

• Place and resize (by catching the blue handle to the right of) your signature in the document.
• When you leave the document, it is saved, and all the filled fields, as well as the signatures and paraphs, can no longer be modified. It remains possible to further enrich the form by filling out other fields, or even adding other signatures and paraphs.
• The creation and use of a Paraphe (generally your initials, which you place for example at the bottom of each page of a contract) are carried out as a signature. The information already entered in a initial or signed form, then saved, can no longer be modified.
• If you activate the switch Save on the device When creating the signature and or the initial, these elements are available for the next times and appear when you touch the tool Sign (feather pen). Tap the prohibited meaning icon to the right of the signature or initiating to delete them from your smartphone.
• Once your PDF form is completed and signed, you can for example send it by e-mail to another person, to a company, an organization. You can also send it to a trusted authority in order to strengthen authentication measures and make any modification of the document detectable after its signature.

How to fill out and sign a PDF form with Adobe Fill & Sign for Android and iPhone ?

This free adobe app for iPhone and iPad (iOS, iPados) and Android tablets and smartphones is not essential if you have already installed the Adobe Acrobat Reader app on your mobile device (since the Reader also allows you to fill and sign PDF). Adobe Fill & Sign, however, offers some additional options that might interest you. The iOS and Android versions differ during our tests, they may be in line when you read these lines.

• Download Adobe Fill & Sign for Android
• Download Adobe Fill & Sign for iOS and iPad

• Connection to an Adobe account is not essential. Free or linked to a paid Adobe subscription, Adobe Id will in particular serve you here to define identical signatures and initials on all your devices, and to share documents. We do not use these possibilities here.

• Touch Select a form to fill out. Indicate, for example, that you will proceed From a PDF file Stored on your phone ..

• … or that you are going To take a picture of the paper form, if you only have this solution (in Google, type The name of the form word monitoring Pdf To check if it is not possible to download a digital version, it would be better !)). The camera of your smartphone activates: place it on an ideally well lit surface and where it stands out from the bottom, Fill & Sign detects the form automatically and takes the photo.

• The application then gives you the choice (icons from left to right): to add photos for a multi -page document, to change the order of pages if there are several, to crop the photo, to rotate it , adjust the color or delete the photo. Touch Join To continue with the photographed document.
• Whatever the method, once the PDF document is opened, browse it quickly to see if it gives entry instructions: necessarily in capital letters and with accents, for example. To lock the uppercase, touch the key twice Uppercase virtual keyboard, on iOS and Android.

• Touch a field to fill. If it is a field of text without separation huts, type the text normally. In the small palette of tools above the field, the icons HAS are used to decrease or grow the size of the text, the icon Basket to reset a field or delete it.

• If it is necessary to enter each character in a box (Adobe calls this a field in comb format or a “combined” field), in the small toolbar, first touch on the Suspension points.

• The small palette presents new tools to you: touch the icon AB. Note above that this palette also serves you to add checks, crosses or chips in your form.

• The text field is transformed: drag the blue handle to the right of this field to play on space between the characters and bring each of them into a box.

• At the top of the screen on Android (and bottom on iOS), touch the icon Profile symbolizing a person to enter your profile. Then touch To modify In order to fill the predefined fields (full name, first name, name, etc.)). Thereafter, when you fill out forms, you just have to touch the icon Profile and to select a pre-reproductive field to avoid having to re-know this information in the form.

• At the bottom of the profile list, in mode “To modify“, also take advantage of the option Add a personalized field To provide information that you often type. Above, we have created a field with the surname that we have certainly already filled above, but here while in capital letters, and a field NUM Customer which prevents us from retaining this issue by heart and having to retype it each time.
• In the form, moving a field is not obvious: deselect it (type next to it); Then touch it once to select it; then touch it (unrestrail) and move it.

• Once the form has been entered, touch the icon representing a shift For Create a signature Or of theinitials. The other Adobe applications call these initials a “paraph”; It serves either as a signature or brand that you affix to the bottom of each page of a contract (or where a reaper or an overload appears).

• You have the possibility of Trace signing or initiating with the finger, or recovering the signature in a file Picture Stored in your phone.
• If you opt for the third option, take a picture of a signature drawn on a sheet of paper thanks to theCamera From your smartphone, after shooting, you can crop it and rotate it before validating the shooting.
• Before touching To end To accept one of the three forms of signature, deactivate the switch Save on the device If you do not want the signature to be kept for other PDF forms.

• Move the signature or initial and resize them thanks to the blue handle. Or delete the document via the icon Basket.

• If you have asked to save the signature on the device, it is available to sign other pages or other PDFs when you touch the pen-pume. To delete it, touch the Gray prohibition to her right.
• Once the form is completed and signed, you can for example touch the application sharing icon to send this document by e-mail. In the transmitted document, Adobe Fill & Sign took care to freeze the already filled fields and signatures and initiaries, which can no longer be modified.

• Above, sharing for sending by the application Email on an iPhone.

• Above, sharing for sending by the application Gmail on an Android phone.

• On the Adobe Fill & Sign home screen for iPhone, slide the name of a file to the left to access the options Others (Make a copy of the PDF, rename), the Share where the DELETE of your smartphone.

• On the Adobe Fill & Sign home screen for Android, a document for a long time to select it (blue check), the toolbar at the top of the screen will then allow you to rename or delete it phone memory.

How to secure an electronic signature ?

The signature is not only the manuscript “grigri” that you draw in the black pen at the bottom of a contract or a check. In its electronic form, it can also be the layout that we have just seen in Adobe applications, or the approximate route that you scribble with the terminal of a delivery man, or a box that you Check on a website and which applies to acceptance of conditions, or a smart card code, or a validation code that you receive by SMS, or a biometric validation, in short, of any electronic method supposed identify and confirm that you are aware of a contractual commitment.

For professionals, there are also electronic cachets To “seal” any type of document, as with a corporate stamp.

• European EIDAS regulations (Electronic Identification Authentication and Trust Services) In fact distinguishes three types of electronic signature – simple, advanced, qualified -, which apply in all European Union States. These three forms of electronic signatures have legal validity, even if we will see that the first offers a very low level of security, and therefore a lower legal value.

The electronic signature secured by a trusted authority

By passing through a company called “Confidence authority”, which locks the completed form, the horodate and manages the signatures of the contractor (s), you reduce the risks in the event of a dispute during the signature of ‘contract.

• Once your PDF form has been entrusted to a “confidence authority”, this provider can, for example, contact the recipients you indicate by e-mail, and ask them to consult and sign the document, without the possibility of modifying it. When all signatories approved the document, the trusted third party transmits it to all participants. It is obviously in this form that your most important contracts should be signed digitally.
• Paid monthly subscriptions for individuals cost 10 to 20 euros for a few signatures per month.
• In the least restrictive formulas, only the person at the initiative of the document needs to have an account with a trust authority: the other signatories consult and sign the document for free, in their usual web browser.
• In Europe, only Qualified signatures are legally and automatically equivalent to handwritten signatures. They require the intervention of a trusted authority validated by the French State or by any other member of the EU (Official List of ANSSI in France and official EU list).

Simple electronic signature

It is the most used, simplest, fastest signature. This is the one we address in this practical sheet, in its form “handwritten electronic signature”.

• There simple electronic signature is practical but remains the least secure of all, because it generally does not allowauthenticate the signatory with certainty in the event of a dispute. We can rely for example on the email address or the IP address which sent the signed PDF.
• Without additional measures, it also does not make it possible to ensure that The document has not been changed after signature.
• You will therefore reserve it to the documents at low legal risk : a request for leave from your employer, registering for a site, a request or a declaration to an organization, the subscription to a free or affordable service and without a duration commitment ..
• Paid providers add more secure measures to authenticate and/or traceability of the signed document, which reassure you and will have more weight in the event of a dispute.

Advanced electronic signature

European legislation allows you to choose your trust service providers in and outside the EU.

• There Advanced electronic signature is a generally paid service – or free a limited number of times.
• Thanks to the trust authority, it is linked to a single and identifiable signatory, and each signed document is frozen and horoded to detect subsequent modifications.
• This is the electronic signature to favor for important acts, commercial, HR, administrative. For companies of course, even for individuals who regularly wish to use this form of consent.

Qualified electronic signature

It is the most advanced level of authentication and certification, but also the most restrictive. The qualified signature is therefore still little used.

• There Qualified electronic signature, In addition to meeting the requirements of the advanced electronic signature, requires that each signatory has a prior certificate issued by a qualified confidence authority operating in the EU.
• Among other constraints, to issue the initial certificate, the trust authority must ensure a Identity verification of the signatory, either in face to face by a physical meeting, either from a distance by visio.
• The signature was initially to be created using a secure device (such as a smart card) containing the qualified signature certificate. The evolution of European regulations today allows a provider of trusted services to manage it thanks to the cloud.

Some service providers

For example, here are some trusted authorities and their prices. Everyone provides you with their own tools for computers and smartphones. There are many other service providers.

• Docusign: € 9 per month for a single user and 5 shipments per month.
• Adobe Sign: from 17.99 euros per month for a user.
• Eversign: in English but free up to 5 shipments per month.
• Universign: 49 € HT for a pack of 25 signatures.
• Yousign: 25 euros per month for an unlimited number of documents.

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With sign.More, users can rationalize their PDF documents signature processes. Without needing to print and scan, everything can be done online effectively and quickly. This improves the productivity of user workflows and saves precious time.

Safety and conformity

Sign.More complies with sector regulations, such as Eidas, Esign and Zertes, ensuring that companies can comply with their legal and regulatory obligations while using the platform. Offering some of the strongest security and confidentiality protections to protect user data, sign.The more use of the encryption of transit and rest data, safety audits for automated and manual applications, two -fact factors, unique authentication (SSO), etc.

Increase your productivity with more features

Sign.Plus offers a range of features designed to increase user productivity when it comes to signing PDF documents online. Ask for signatures from several recipients and easily define their roles and signature steps, guaranteeing a transparent and organized workflow. You can define automatic reminders, expiration dates for transactions and even specify if the recipients must sign the document or simply receive a copy. These intuitive tools make the entire signature process faster and more efficient, allowing you to focus on what really matters.

Step by step guide to electronically sign an online PDF document

Download documents

Your sign.More dashboard, search for the tool Sign . Blit (mobile only) or download your documents (s). Select who must sign the document (s). If you have selected Request a signature instead of Sign , You will be invited to add here the name of the recipient, the email address and the designated signature stage.

Modify and sign online

Choose from a variety of investments ranging from signature, text and initials to date and check boxes. Change the document (s) by freely sliding the locations and browsing the police and color options. If you have selected Sign In step 1, you will be invited to sign at this stage.

Send your document

Good game! Your document is ready. Please follow the instructions to send your document. Otherwise, click on Download To immediately access your finalized document.

How to electronically sign a PDF – FAQ

How to add a signature to an online PDF ?

You can use an electronic signature service like sign.More, which allow you to sign documents electronically and safely. To add a signature to an online PDF and PDF ESIGN documents, simply type, draw or scan your signature and use the sign.More app on the web or mobile to add the electronic signature.

Can you add a handwritten signature to a PDF ?

Yes, it is possible to add a handwritten signature to an online PDF file. You can use sign.Plus, the legally binding electronic signature solution to sign online PDF files and add a handwritten signature to a PDF.

How to add a signature to a Adobe PDF ?

You can use an electronic signature service like sign.More to add a signature to a PDF without Adobe. Sign.The more easily and safely sign PDF files from a computer or mobile.

Can I sign PDF online for free ?

Yes, there are several free online tools that allow you to sign online PDFs, such as sign.MORE . You just need to create an account for free to be able to use their online signature tool and electronically sign an online PDF immediately.

Try sign.No more now and sign PDF files easily and safely

Legally binding electronic signatures with sign.More offer a multitude of advantages compared to the signing of traditional paper documents. With our platform, you can save time by completing the signature processes faster, reducing costs by opting for dematerialization and working without stress with increased safety thanks to expanded compliance offers to industry standards. Try sign.More, sign PDF files online and see the difference it can do for your business or organization.