How to add your signature to a PDF for free. This post has been updated Check out the new, easier, methods of adding your signatures to PDFs here. In an effort to go completely paperless, I was presented with the problem of needing to sign a document pdf that was emailed to me and then needing to send it back. Without having to print out the form to sign it nor needing access to a scanner or fax machine to send it back, you can simply take a picture of your signature, and then using free tools you can import it into the PDF and email it right back This may seem long and complicated at first, but once you read through it and do it once, it should be fast and easy a second time And granted, there may be slightly easier ways to do this with paid tools, but this guide is for using freely available tools which you also may have one or two already installed 1. Download and install the tools. Here is what you need to download Adobe Reader 9 which you probably already have. We will use this to view the original PDF and take a single screenshot to import into the image editing software dont worry, it will look good, Paint. PDF screenshot, and then also to re print to a new PDF, Cute. PDF or any other free PDF Printer, which as opposed to printing to a printer, will allow you to print to create a PDF, and A way to get a copy of your signature on your computer. I used my i. Phone to take a picture of my signature, though, you can use what ever camera phone, real digital camera, etc that you have. Convert your PDF to a screenshot an imageOpen your PDF in Adobe Reader 9 and zoom all the way out so you can see the entire page even if it looks small and you can no longer read anything Next, select the Snap. Shot tool Tools Select Zoom Snapshot Tool and starting at one corner, click and drag to the opposite diagonal corner to highlight the entire page. Once you do that, you should receive a dialog box saying that the selected area has been copied to the clipboard However, if you proceed in using what is currently copied, it will be exactly the same size as you are currently looking at it meaning, it will be really small and will end up very pixilated when you blow it up to normal paper size when you re print it as a PDF, such as the image below click to enlarge to full size So, in order to fix this, make sure the page is still highlighted transparent blue and then zoom in quite a bit View Zoom Zoom To. You dont need to zoom to 5. While making sure it is still highlighted, right click anywhere it is blue ish, and click copy selected graphic. You now have a much larger screenshot of the PDF in your clipboard. Proceed by opening Paint. Edit Paste and feel free to save this as a PNG file if you want Ill refer to this image as pdf screenshot. Either way, to make things easier, go ahead and keep Paint. You now have a large, high quality screenshot image of your PDF which is ready to have your signature placed on top of Get your signature onto your computer. Okay, so now you need to get your signature on the computer. Chances are you have a decent enough camera phone and a way to get those pictures onto your computer that you can use to take a picture of your signature, such as the i. Phone or you can of course use a scanner, a real digital camera, or however else you can come up with a way to do it. With my i. Phone, I just took a picture of the signature in a decently lit room and then emailed my self the picture and no, this is not my real signature, ha 4. Prep your signature for overlaying on the PDF screenshot. We will now make the image black and white, enhance it using brightness and contrast, and then make everything that is not the signature the paper to be transparent. Open your signature in Paint.
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