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Sign a document with your own hand, your keyboard, or a photograph of your signature. Drawn signatures are vector strokes that scale to any size without blurring; typed ones are matched to script faces; a photographed signature has the paper background removed automatically, so what lands on the page is ink and nothing else. Place it, size it, and add a date next to it. No sign-up, no login, no watermark, and no upload — the signature never leaves your device.
To sign a PDF free, add the file, draw, type or photograph your signature, place it on the page, and download. A photographed signature has its paper background removed automatically. No sign-up, no watermark, nothing uploaded.
Draw it if you have a stylus or a mouse and want the shape of your hand. Type it if you sign on a touchscreen or want a consistent result every time. Photograph it if your signature has flourishes that neither of those reproduces. All three are equally valid; the practical difference is how it looks and how much space it needs on the page.
Sign on white paper, photograph it from directly above in even light with no shadow, and fill the frame with the signature alone. Those four things are the difference between a clean cut-out and a rectangle of grey paper. Crop tight so the background remover has less to work around.
A drawn signature embedded in the page is sufficient for most agreements. What it is not is tamper-evident: the whole file can be edited afterwards. If a dispute is plausible, send the original and keep a hash of it — Fingerprint PDF gives you a SHA-256 you can quote later to prove the file did not change.
A phone is the right tool when the document arrived on a phone and needs to go back the same day. A laptop is better when the signature needs to be precise or the document has many pages to navigate. Both produce the same kind of embedded signature — there is no difference in legal weight between signing on a phone and on a desktop.
In most jurisdictions, yes, including under the US ESIGN Act and the EU eIDAS framework, when the signer intends to sign and the document is not otherwise excluded. What this tool does not provide is a certificate-backed digital signature, which is a different and stronger thing. If a counterparty specifically requires a qualified digital signature, you need a certificate — this is a drawn or typed signature embedded in the page.
Good on a plain, evenly lit background photographed from above, which is how most people photograph a signature. Less good on textured paper, a creased sheet, or a photo with a shadow across it. If the result has a fringe, retake it: a flat, shadowless photo on white paper removes almost every trace.
No. A certificate is only needed for a certificate-backed digital signature, which proves identity cryptographically. For a drawn, typed or photographed signature, none is required and none is used here.
Yes. Save your signature once and it is available to every tool on the site and to every document you open afterwards, in this browser only. It is stored locally, not in an account.
Yes. A drawn signature is stored as vector paths, so it prints sharply at any size, and a photographed one is embedded at the resolution you signed at. Export at print resolution if you are sending it to a professional printer.
Yes, and signing on a phone is a common case: draw with your finger, drag it into place, download. A finger-drawn signature is less neat than a stylus or mouse, so a typed signature often looks better on a touchscreen.
Once the document is flattened, the signature is baked into the page content like any other drawing. Flatten PDF makes that permanent — the signature cannot be selected and deleted as an annotation, because it is no longer an annotation.
Yes. No account, no login, no watermark, and no upload. The signature is created and placed inside your browser, so the whole thing works offline.
More edit & annotate — all free, no upload.