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Adobe offers new Online Digital Signing Service

By Rick Borstein

Print. Sign. Scan. Fax or email. Repeat.

Print. Sign. Scan. Fax or email. Repeat.

If that sounds familiar to you, you'll want to try Adobe eSignatures, an online electronic signature service.

This service is an easy to use, cross-platform, guided service that is easy enough for anyone to use. The service is in Beta (testing) right now and is free.

Here's how it works:

• You upload a document to the Adobe eSignatures website
• Through the service, you invite people to sign the document
• Signers create a free account on the service (Your standard Adobe ID is all you need)
• Signers sign online, in the browser
• You are alerted when all parties have signed the document
• A digitally signed PDF is returned to you (and your signers) with a signature page appended to the document (see below).

Since the file is digitally signed, once completed, no changes are possible to the document.

Further, the document is time-stamped and certified:

In this article, I'll offer a quick walk-through of the service and offer some additional tips and thoughts.

Currently the service is free, so give it a whirl.

Full post as published by Acrobat for Legal Professionals on May 28, 2010 (boomark / email).