PDF Sign

In most jurisdictions, yes. The United States ESIGN Act of 2000 and the UETA grant electronic signatures the same legal standing as ink on paper for the vast majority of commercial, employment, and personal contracts. The European Union's eIDAS Regulation provides equivalent recognition across all member states at the Simple Electronic Signature level. The United Kingdom Electronic Communications Act 2000, Canada's PIPEDA and provincial e-commerce laws, and Australia's Electronic Transactions Act all contain comparable provisions. A typed or drawn electronic signature placed on a PDF satisfies the legal definition of a signature in these frameworks for commercial contracts, employment agreements, rental leases, sales agreements, service contracts, and most everyday legal documents. Exceptions exist and vary by jurisdiction. Wills and codicils in most US states and EU countries require a handwritten wet signature witnessed in person. Certain property transfers, powers of attorney, and family law documents may require notarisation or specific witnessing formalities. For the highest level of legally verifiable assurance, a qualified digital signature backed by a certificate from an accredited Trust Service Provider provides a cryptographic audit trail and is recognised at the highest legal tier under eIDAS. That is a different mechanism from a visual signature stamp. Consult a lawyer qualified in your jurisdiction for advice on any specific document.

Yes. The tool opens a drawing canvas where you can create your signature using a mouse, a laptop trackpad, or a touchscreen. On desktop computers, mouse and trackpad input captures the path of your pointer to reproduce your natural signing motion. On touchscreen devices including smartphones and tablets, you can draw directly with your finger, though finger-drawn signatures tend to produce thicker and less precise strokes. A stylus produces significantly cleaner results on touchscreen devices. Apple Pencil on iPad, Samsung S Pen on Galaxy devices, and Surface Pen on Microsoft Surface all provide pressure sensitivity and fine tip accuracy that closely matches the feel of signing with an actual pen. If you prefer not to draw, the tool provides a type-to-sign option: enter your name and choose from three script font styles — elegant cursive, casual handwriting, or formal italic. The selected font is rendered as a transparent-background PNG image and placed on the PDF exactly as a drawn signature would be. A third option lets you upload a scanned PNG of your ink signature, such as a photo of your hand-drawn signature on white paper. All three methods produce a transparent-background image that can be positioned, scaled, and placed anywhere on any page.

After drawing, typing, or uploading your signature, you click anywhere on the PDF preview to drop the signature at that exact location. The placed signature appears inside a bounding box with corner and edge handles that let you drag to reposition it, resize it proportionally, or rotate it to match the angle of a signature line on the form. You can place multiple signatures on the same page — for example, initialling every section of a multi-clause contract — and you can place signatures on different pages of the same PDF. This makes the tool practical for multi-party contract templates where a signature block appears at the bottom of every page alongside a printed name. The full-page preview includes zoom controls so you can work at high magnification to align the signature precisely on top of a printed signature line or within a form field box. When you click Export PDF, every placed signature is flattened into the content stream of the PDF. The signatures become permanent visual elements of the page and can no longer be moved or deleted with standard PDF tools after download. Save the file immediately after reviewing the placement.

No. The entire signing workflow runs locally in your browser without communicating with any server. The drawing canvas is a standard HTML5 Canvas element that stores pixel data in browser tab memory only. Whether you draw, type, or upload your signature, the resulting image is held in JavaScript memory in the tab and never serialised to a network request. The PDF you load is read from your local disk using the browser's FileReader API, processed by a WebAssembly PDF engine, combined with the signature image, and made available as a download — all inside your browser tab. All processing happens in your browser — nothing leaves your device. This privacy model is essential for the documents most commonly signed electronically: non-disclosure agreements, employment contracts, rental applications, medical consent forms, and financial documents. These should never pass through a third-party server whose security practices you cannot audit. The browser automatically clears all canvas data and in-memory file objects when you close the tab or navigate away, so no trace of your signature remains in browser storage after the session ends unless you deliberately save the image file. There is no account, no session token, and no persistent storage of any kind on our end.