Sign a PDF
Draw your signature with a mouse, finger, or stylus, type it, or upload a photo of it — then drag it exactly where it belongs. Everything happens in your browser, so neither the document nor your signature is ever uploaded.
Sign as many pages as you need — an initial on each page and a full signature at the end is a single pass. This places a signature on the page, the same as printing, signing, and scanning would; it is not a certificate-based digital signature, so it carries no cryptographic proof of who signed. For most everyday agreements that’s exactly what is wanted, but it’s worth knowing before you send something on.
Frequently asked questions
Is this a legally binding signature?
It can be, but that depends on your jurisdiction and the document — not on this tool. Most places (the US under the ESIGN Act, the EU under eIDAS, India under the IT Act) recognise a drawn or typed electronic signature for ordinary agreements, and a signature image on a PDF is the same thing you'd produce by printing, signing, and scanning. What it is NOT is a certificate-based digital signature: there is no cryptographic proof of who signed or that the file hasn't been altered since. Some documents — property deeds, wills, certain court filings — require a notary, a witness, or a qualified certificate, and no browser tool can provide those. If the document matters, check what it requires.
Does my signature get uploaded anywhere?
No. Everything happens in your browser — the PDF, your drawn or typed signature, and any image you upload all stay on your device, and nothing is stored on our servers. Your signature is one of the more sensitive things you own, which is exactly why this tool does no round trip.
Can I put my signature on more than one page?
Yes. Move to any page, position the signature, and add it again — an initial on every page plus a full signature on the last one is the usual pattern for a contract. The same signature is stored once inside the PDF no matter how many times it appears, so the file doesn't grow with each placement.
How do I get the signature exactly where the line is?
Drag it. Once placed, drag the signature to move it and drag its bottom-right corner to resize — the height follows your signature's own proportions, so it never comes out stretched. You can also use the arrow keys to nudge it, hold Alt with the arrows to resize, and press Delete to remove it, which makes the whole thing usable without a mouse.
Which should I use — draw, type, or upload?
Draw is the closest to a real signature, and works well with a finger or stylus on a phone or tablet. Upload is best if you already have a photo or scan of your signature — a PNG with a transparent background is ideal, since a photo on white paper will cover whatever it's placed over. Type is quickest, and honest about what it is: it's your name set in a font, which is fine for internal forms and routine acknowledgements.
Can someone remove the signature afterwards?
It becomes part of the page's drawing instructions, so it can't be toggled off in a reader — but someone with the right tools can still edit it out, just as they could with any image on a page. This is worth knowing rather than assuming otherwise: the tool places a signature, it doesn't lock the document. Keep your own copy of what you signed.
Can I ask someone else to sign a document?
Not with this tool, deliberately. Sending a document out for signature is a different product — it needs accounts, email delivery, identity checks, and an audit trail showing who opened and signed what and when, none of which can happen in a browser tab with no server. This tool does the half that genuinely can be done privately on your own device: signing a document yourself.
Does it work on rotated or scanned pages?
Yes. The signature is drawn onto the page rather than into a text layer, so a scan is fine. Rotated pages are handled properly too — the signature lands where you dragged it and reads the right way up, rather than lying sideways along the page edge.
Why can't I type my name in my own script?
The typed styles use the fonts built into every PDF reader, which cover Latin letters, digits, and standard punctuation but not Devanagari, CJK, or emoji. Embedding a font that did would add roughly a megabyte to every signed document. If your name isn't in that set, use the Draw tab and sign it in your own hand — which is a better signature anyway.