<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">BACKGROUND -- we know that s-signature must be manually applied by the person (e.g. applicant, practitioner) herself/himself. If another </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">person "signs in my name" (e.g. paralegal), this is NO GOOD.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">MY PROPOSAL --> signing many many documents can get tedious. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I want write a python script which opens a pdf, applies an s-signature, and saves the updated signed form.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">[in reality, Chat GPT would write the python script]</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">For example, let's say online software prepares a unsigned IDF form --> <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">IDS18x123456unsigned.pdf</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There would be a command prompt --></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>python signIDS.py "/William Ahmed/" <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">IDS18x123456unsigned.pdf</span></span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The python script would inject that s-signature into <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">IDS18x123456unsigned.pdf in the correct location </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">and output a file <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">IDS18x123456SIGNED.pdf</span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">VERY VERY IMPORTANT -- I would manually type the command prompt.</span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br>Some might say 'this is not more efficient' - please leave this issue aside.</span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Some might say - nobody would know - please leave this issue aside.</span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">MY QUESTION -- is this a bonafide s-signature? After all, I am manually typing in a command to sign THAT form -- not a secretary.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">IF NO --> MODIFIED QUESTION --> <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Let's say I open the pdf file, review it without modifying it, and close the unsigned IDS file and THEN run the python script. Would that change things?</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Bill</div></div></body></html>