Tired of printing, signing and then scanning or faxing documents that need your signature?
In today’s digital world there are better and more efficient ways to sign documents than ink on paper. Creating a digital signature and adding it to a Word, Excel and PDF documents is easy.
Let just start with introducing the difference between electronic signature and digital signature. For all that they sound alike, however, they are two different things. An electronic signature is simply an image of your signature added to a document while a digital signature is encrypted data that proves the document came from you. For some purposes, a simple electronic signature will be fine, but for more important documents, a secure digital signature is highly recommended. Electronically signing documents offers the convenience and digital signature security options necessary to create legally binding documents with the signature capture devices.
Capturing the Digital Signature
If you wish to add your signature to a Word, Excel document or PDF, the first step is buying a signature capture device or digital writing pad and installing the proper software that fulfills all your requirements. Sigplex provides the best signature capture devices and the compatible software for the same. The product range starts from being Non-LCD, LCD as well as A4 tablets. All our devices are USB plug and play, unless you you require serial cable, that are also available for all devices.
- Plug the Signature Device or digital writing pad into the USB socket on your Desktop or laptop (OS – Windows). All our devices are compatible for signing on Word, Excel and PDF document.
- We have free software to sign on MS-Office. The software allows you to save the signature with timestamp in an image format and upload it in your document or directly sign on the Word document.
- We have many paid software, and our recommended software with get encrypted signature for legal documents will be SignoSign/2. It PDF creator that allows you add new text fields as well as add any number of signature fields in the document.
- After you have plugged in and installed the desired software in your desktop or laptop, you are ready to sign on your document.
As technology improves and more industries move to sophisticated digital and mobile methodology, the use of physical paper documents continues to diminish. Several advantages exist for industries and organisations that employ the digital signature-capturing technology.
