Fill and sign PDF
Fill in a form and sign it: type, draw, or add an image of your signature.
or drop files anywhere on this page
Your files stay in this browser. Nothing is uploaded.
About Fill & Sign
Fill and Sign opens a PDF so you can fill it in and sign it without printing anything. Type into the form fields, place answers anywhere on the page when the document has no real fields, add the date, and put your signature where it belongs, then download the signed copy. It is free, there is no account to make, and the file stays on your device.
The signature dialog gives you four ways to sign: type your name in a handwriting style, draw it with a mouse or a finger, add a photo or scan of the signature you already use, or photograph one on paper with your camera. The result is a picture placed on the page, and each one is saved in this browser so the next form takes seconds.
How it works
- Choose the PDF you need to fill in, or drop it anywhere on this page.
- Choose Forms, then click a field to type, tick a box, pick a radio button or choose from a list. If the document has no real fields, choose Text and click on blank space where the answer goes.
- Open Sign, choose New Signature, then use the Type, Draw, Upload Image or Camera tab and click Save. The signature lands in the middle of the page in view, so scroll to the right page first.
- Drag the signature into place and resize it by a corner, which keeps its proportions. Add initials and the date from More, under Insert.
- Click Apply changes and download the signed PDF. Flatten it afterwards if you want the answers fixed in place.
Four ways to make a signature
Each tab in the signature dialog produces a picture, and Save places it on the page and keeps it for next time.
- Type: enter your name and choose one of twelve handwriting styles, such as Caveat, Dancing Script or Satisfy. The styles come from Google Fonts the first time the dialog opens.
- Draw: sign with a mouse, trackpad or finger in a black or blue pen. Clear starts again.
- Upload Image: use a photo or scan of a signature on white paper. Original keeps the picture as it is, Transparent A removes near-white pixels, and Transparent B, the default, keeps only the dark strokes and redraws them in black.
- Camera: hold a signature on white paper to the camera and choose Take picture. It is cleaned up the way Transparent B does it. If permission is refused or there is no camera, the tab says the camera is not available.
Every signature is saved in this browser
Signatures you create are listed under Saved signatures in the Sign menu. Click one to place it again, at the width you last gave it, or click the small cross on its thumbnail to delete it. The Saved assets page lists everything stored, renames items, and exports or imports the whole library as a ZIP. If the browser blocks storage, the signature is still placed on the page but not kept.
Filling forms, with and without real fields
Real form fields appear as boxes over the page once you choose Forms. Text and multi-line fields, checkboxes, radio buttons and dropdowns can be filled. Push buttons, and fields that exist only to hold a certificate-based digital signature, are not offered, so place your signature with Sign instead. Values are written into the fields when you apply changes, and they stay live: anyone who opens the file can still change them until it is flattened.
Plenty of forms are a flat page with lines printed on it, and every scan is. Use Text there: click where the answer goes, type, and drag the box into place. If the click lands on printed text, the editor opens that text for editing instead of starting a new box, so click on blank space beside it. New text starts as black Helvetica, and the next box remembers the font, size and colour you set last.
Under More, Insert drops in four ready-made boxes: Initials, which starts as AB for you to retype, today's Date in your browser's format, a Checkmark and a Cross. All four are ordinary text boxes you can move and restyle. For handwritten initials, draw them in the signature dialog and place them like a signature.
What the signed file contains
The signature is a picture drawn onto the page. Answers typed into real form fields are stored as the fields' values, while answers you placed with Text are drawn onto the page like the signature. Nothing is added that identifies you or certifies the document, so the file cannot show later who placed a mark or whether the page was changed afterwards. The dialog itself says the tool does not guarantee that a signature is legally binding.
You download a second file rather than a replacement: its name is yours with "-edited" on the end, and the copy you opened is left alone. To lock the answers in place, run it through Flatten PDF and choose Flatten only form fields, which keeps text selectable and bakes in what you typed. Flatten everything turns each page into a picture instead.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Open the file here, place a typed, drawn or photographed signature on the page, and download the signed copy. Nothing needs printing or scanning, and the file is never sent to a server.
In many countries a typed or drawn mark counts as an electronic signature and is accepted for everyday agreements, but the rules differ by country and by document, and some contracts call for a qualified certificate. This tool draws your signature onto the page; it does not attach a cryptographic certificate. Check what your document requires if something important depends on it.
Yes. When a document is a flat page with lines printed on it, use Text and click on blank space where the answer goes. The result looks the same to whoever receives it.
Yes. A scan is a picture with no fields, so use Text to click where each answer goes and Sign for the signature. You may see a note that the page is an image, which only matters if you wanted to edit the scan's own words. For that, run OCR first.
Yes. In the Draw tab you sign with a finger, and the Camera tab photographs a signature on paper once the browser has your permission to use the camera. On a narrow screen the zoom control sits under More; zoom in before you drag the signature into place.
In this browser's storage on this device, and nowhere else. It is not sent anywhere, so anyone who can open this browser profile can see it and nobody outside it can. Delete it from the Sign menu or the Saved assets page, or clear your browser data, and it is gone.
Form field values stay editable until the document is flattened: run the finished file through Flatten PDF with Flatten only form fields to write them into the page. A signature is already painted on, so flattening does nothing for it, and somebody can paint over it with an editor of their own without the file recording it.
No. There is no sign-in and no email step, and nothing here knows who you are. Open the file, fill it in, sign it, download it.
No. The document is read into this tab and the signed copy is built here as well. Nothing is sent to a server, which is the point: a contract you are signing is usually the last file you want sitting in somebody else's storage. Copies stay on your own machine: a Recent files entry, and a recovery copy while local saving is on, both only for documents under 5 MB. Clear them from the Recent files page, and from More, then Local saving.
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