My boss travels a lot. Is there a way she can do a e-signature to the documents that I send her?
Would you mind answering a couple of questions first?
What do you hope to accomplish with an e-signature? So that she can verify that you actually were the sender? Or when she sends to you, that she was the actual sender? Or something else?
What email client do you and her currently use?
You’ll have to elaborate more. If you’re only looking to get her signature on the document, I suppose she could digitize her signature somehow, keeping it with her to embed it in whatever document you have.
If you’re looking for a more secure solution, I think there are progarms out there that will allow her to use a password or something to embed some text or code or something to prove she typed her password into it at some point. I think.
I think I get what you want. Since she travels a lot she’s not always there to sign documents so you need some way she can affix her signature to something you send her via e-mail, right?
Why not have her scan her signature in and then just add the image to the document? Or, scan her signature in yourself and send it along as a jpg attachment.
Yes, the idea is that she is not in the office and the documents that I need her to sign will be sent to her so she can review and add her signature. I found that I can use Acrobat Adobe program to scan in her signature. She just wants to make sure that her signature is secured (that no one can modify it).
As you will easily note, with a scanned image, any bits can be modified. Physical signatures just don’t translate into the digital world.
She would probably be better off having a rubber stamp that stays with a trusted person at the office, and she can instruct them if it is OK to stamp the documents.
Sending digitized signature jpgs unencrypted via email is not a wise idea.