Sign your own PDF here, in your browser. Draw your signature, type it, or take it from a photo of your signature on paper; then place it on the document with the date, your initials, check marks, a line of text, or a Japanese seal. The document never leaves your computer: nothing is uploaded, nothing is kept, and there is no account to make.
1Make Your Signature
Please sign in the frame below with the mouse, the trackpad or your finger. To write again, press "Clear".
A Japanese seal too (hanko)
In katakana or kanji, up to eight characters: a round seal 12 mm across, or an oval for a longer name. To find your name in katakana, see Your Name in Japanese. Placed with "Stamp Seal" below.
The signature is not sent anywhere and is not kept. It is gone when you close this page. To keep it, please use "Save As Picture".
2Sign the PDF
Open the PDF and press "Place Signature": the signature from the frame above is placed on the page you are looking at. Drag it into place; the corner handles change its size, the top handle turns it. The initials, the seal, the date, text and check marks are placed the same way.
Please drag the PDF file to here.
The PDF file is not sent anywhere. It is opened, signed and saved only on your device.
What This Signature Is
The signature goes onto the PDF as a picture, as a signature on paper does when the page is scanned. The document's own text stays text, and the date and any text you add are real text too. That serves most everyday paperwork: forms, applications, letters, leases and many agreements.
In the United States and the European Union, a signature like this generally counts as a simple electronic signature. It carries no certificate and no record of who signed. Papers that need more, such as wills or notarised documents, are signed another way. If the recipient asks for a particular way of signing, please follow their instructions.
Signing a Japanese Document
Many Japanese forms ask for a seal (印鑑, hanko) where a Western form asks for a signature, and agreements such as leases often ask for both: 署名捺印, signature and seal. Open "A Japanese seal too", write your name in katakana or kanji, and press "Stamp Seal". Where a form prints ㊞, the seal goes on that mark. Documents that need a registered seal (実印, jitsuin) with its certificate still need paper.
How to Use
- Make your signature with "Draw", "Type" or "From a photo". The ink can be black or blue. For initials, choose "Initials" under "Make" and make them the same way; the signature and the initials are kept apart.
- For a Japanese seal, open "A Japanese seal too" and write the name for the seal.
- Press "Choose PDF File" and open the PDF you want to sign.
- Press "Place Signature", "Place Initials", "Stamp Seal", ✓ or ✗. Drag each into place and adjust it with the handles. Released over another page, it moves to that page.
- "Add Date" adds today's date in the format chosen beside it; "Add Text" adds a line you type in the "Text" field. To initial or date every page, select what you placed and press "On Every Page": it is placed at the same spot on each of the other pages.
- Press "Save The Signed PDF".
With the keyboard: the arrow keys move what is selected by 1 mm (5 mm with Shift), "+" and "-" change its size, "[" and "]" turn it, Page Up and Page Down carry it to the page before or after, Delete removes it.
PDFs protected by a password, and PDFs whose editing is restricted, cannot be signed here.
The signature faces are Cedarville Cursive, Caveat, Kaushan Script and Klee One; the date and text are set in BIZ UDPGothic (all under the SIL Open Font License). The PDF is shown and saved with the open-source pdf.js (Apache License 2.0), pdf-lib (MIT License) and fontkit (MIT License): see their licences here, here and here.
