signing documents
Add signatures to contract execution and approval workflows
Explore the power of digital and electronic signatures with Nutrient’s efficient, customizable, and secure SDKs and APIs.
Use cases
Integrate electronic signatures
Embed electronic signature functionality directly into applications, allowing users to sign documents digitally without needing external tools.
Validate document integrity
Use digital signatures to ensure the authenticity and integrity of PDF documents, providing users with a secure way to verify and validate signed files.
Automate signature collection
Streamline the process of collecting multiple signatures on a single document, enabling batch signing and reducing manual effort.
Support various signature standards
Implement support for different signature types and standards, including PAdES, to meet diverse compliance requirements.
Provide seamless signing experiences
Offer an intuitive, user-friendly signing interface that can be customized to fit within existing applications, ensuring a smooth signing process for end users.
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Electronic Signatures
Quickly capture approvals and sign documents easily with multiple signature types. Ideal for everyday use, this component provides a user-friendly, adaptable way to secure documents — without the need for complex authentication.
Quickly capture approvals and sign documents easily with multiple signature types. Ideal for everyday use, this component provides a user-friendly, adaptable way to secure documents — without the need for complex authentication.
Digital Signatures
Implement secure digital signatures to ensure authenticity, integrity, and legal compliance in your document workflows. Ideal for high-security needs and formal agreements.
Implement secure digital signatures to ensure authenticity, integrity, and legal compliance in your document workflows. Ideal for high-security needs and formal agreements.
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Frequently asked questions
What's the difference between electronic and digital signatures?
An electronic signature is a visual representation of a signature, similar to a handwritten signature on a printed document. It states who signed a document, acts as an acknowledgement, and could represent an agreement or contract.
Digital signatures, on the other hand, create a unique digital fingerprint of a document using cryptographic technology, providing enhanced security and verifying the integrity of the document’s contents. When using an electronic signature, one can acknowledge accepted terms to a contract by adding a visual signature.
When using a digital signature, one can be assured the document’s content has not been tampered with, as it verifies the digital signer’s identity.
What customization options are available in the Electronic Signatures SDK for signature UX/UI and workflows?
The electronic signature UI provides the ability to:
- Show tabs to draw a signature, type a signature, or upload a signature image
- Change the font of a typed signature
- Change the color of the text of a drawn signature
- Change the title of a signature dialog
- Show a narrow or wide version of the signature dialog
- Store signatures when signing multiple times
Can the Electronic Signatures SDK handle multiple signature types, such as drawn, image-based, and typed signatures?
The Electronic Signatures SDK has the ability to show tabs for a drawn signature, a typed signature, or uploading a signature image.
What are the system requirements for integrating the electronic signatures SDK into a web application?
Electronic signatures have the same requirements as our web viewer. Any modern browser and web server are all that’s required to integrate Nutrient into a web application. There’s no dependency on frameworks such as React, Next, or Angular.
What is a digital signature certificate?
A digital certificate is issued by a certificate authority (CA). It contains the public key for a digital signature and specifies the identity associated with the key, such as the name of an organization. The certificate is used to confirm that the public key belongs to the organization, and the CA acts as the guarantor. Digital certificates must be issued by a trusted authority and are only valid for a specified time. They’re necessary to create a digital signature in a document.