jerrade | Posts: 12

Text Extraction is creating an extra signature field

Friday, December 1, 2017 at 06:25am
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I'm trying to send a document for signature using text extraction. It's working, but it's putting an extra signature field in the document that I don't want. My code looks like: 
    .WithDocument(DocumentBuilder.NewDocumentNamed("SLPEval")
                    .EnableExtraction()
                    .WithExtractionType(ExtractionType.TEXT_TAGS_ONLY)
                    .FromStream(ms, DocumentType.PDF)
                    .WithSignature(SignatureBuilder.SignatureFor("[email protected]")
                        .WithId(new SignatureId("signer1"))
                        .WithStyle(SignatureStyle.HAND_DRAWN)
                    )
                )
and I have the text 
{{esl:signer1:capture:size(200,50)}}
in my pdf. The document ends up with a signature field in the correct place, but it also puts an unwanted signature field in the upper left corner of the document. Any idea why that would be happening?
Approved Answer
DougExner | Posts: 6

Reply to: Text Extraction is creating an extra signature field

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 06:18pm
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It is acting as it should. You are using text tag extraction, which creates fields based on what is defined in the document, and you are also defining a signature in your code with .WithSignature(...) Instead of .WithSignature, you should be using WithSigner to define the signer, and leave the signature definition to the Text Tags in the document. e.g. something like what is in the Text Tag feature guide:
harishaidary | Posts: 1812

Reply to: Text Extraction is creating an extra signature field

Friday, December 1, 2017 at 08:16am
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Hello, I'm experiencing the same issue on my end as well. I will create a ticket with our maintenance team to investigate. Sorry for the inconvenience.
harishaidary | Posts: 1812

Reply to: Text Extraction is creating an extra signature field

Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 04:54am
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You are correct Doug. Hence your code should simply be: 
 .WithDocument(DocumentBuilder.NewDocumentNamed("SLPEval")
                    .EnableExtraction()
                    .WithExtractionType(ExtractionType.TEXT_TAGS_ONLY)
                    .FromStream(ms, DocumentType.PDF)
                )
jerrade | Posts: 12

Reply to: Text Extraction is creating an extra signature field

Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 05:37am
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Got it. Thanks!

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