While digital technologies are taking over from analog one by one, the legal requirement for signatures on contracts, NDA’s etc means business and governments need to be able to have an established workflow to efficiently capture, store and work with them in a digital format.
There is more in a handwritten signature than meets the eye: In addition to visible static signature image characteristics there are invisible dynamic (biometric) signals of the writing movement such as location, speed and acceleration.
The more accurate and diverse signals may be captured from a device throughout the signing procedure, the more significant the set of signature data for a particular signer. Characteristic in particular are the points where each stroke starts and ends.
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