Gotcha | Posts: 44

How to place a signature field on dynamically generated pdf from a 3rd party .

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Hi In our Web Application, we have a 2 Types of PDF: 1. Templated PDF which our App will merge Data ; The resulting PDF will have the merged data and Fields with the DocumentExtract tags [SignerId#.Capture#] 2. PDFs from 3rd party Vendors which we receive via Webservices. The whole package is bundled into one PDF and which is uploaded to ESL . in the case of #2 ( PDF from 3rd party) , there are "Signature Line" , however, there are no Fields and the position of the "Signature Line" can be viewed visually but they can change as the Vendors PDF are dynamically generated . So the "Signature Line" may be on Page 2, or if the Page is bigger it will be on Page 3..etc So my challenge is to find how I can tell ESL to : 1. Identify where on the PDF is the "Signature Line" 2. Place the appropriate Signature Control Any advice?

mwilliams | Posts: 957

Reply to: How to place a signature field on dynamically generated pdf from a 3rd party .

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Hey Gotcha, From the sounds of it, your best option is probably to use our Text Anchors feature. This allows you to use text from the document to specify the location of the signature block by the occurrence of that text. So, you can use the text that would be next to the signature. For example, if your signature area on the document looks like this: "Signature: ________________________-", you could anchor the signature based on the text "Signature". The only other thing you'd need to know is what occurrence of that word it is in the document. If there is only once occurrence, that's easy. If there are multiple signature blocks, you'd need to know how many. If there are multiple signers and multiple signatures, you'd need to be able to distinguish between them based on other text around, like "Employee Signature: _________________" and "Manager Signature: ________________" or something like that. Hopefully this explanation makes sense. You can find the guide for this feature, here: Text Anchors Guide

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