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StearmanDriver
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August 16, 2009
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Making a form "signable" using a signature capture pad or tablet?

  • August 16, 2009
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Hi,

Our system right now is generating a very simple form to be printed, signed by a customer, and then filed.  We're looking to go paperless with the system and just have the customer sign a signature capture pad (I don't know if I'm calling this device by the right name - I mean the flat pad or touchscreen that is signed with a plastic tipped pen, like when you swipe your own credit card.)

We then want this "captured" signature to be placed in the right location on the form, and the form saved in our records for retrieval and printing later if necessary.

Right now, this form is a plain webpage styled with a "print" style sheet.  It's just a few paragraphs of plain text so alignment isn't critical.  I can switch to using a pdf form if that makes it easier.  The key is, we want this to work as a web-based system, so ideally if pdf is necessary it would work on machines running Reader or Acrobat.

I've never worked with one of these signature pads.  How do they generally hand data to the computer?  Is it an image?  Would this image then have to be upped to the server and then dropped onto the form?  Or is there an easier way?

Any suggestions would be great.  I enjoy studying these things on my own, but I can't even find anything to study in this case lol.

Thanks,

Joe

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    StearmanDriverAuthor
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    June 18, 2011

    Believe it or not, I'll bump this...

    We've recently returned to working on this issue and I STILL can't find much documentation.  Surely someone has made this work by now... anyone have ANY ideas or suggested resources?

    Thanks!

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    Adam Cameron.
    Inspiring
    June 18, 2011

    I think you're not getting an responses because you're not asking in the right place.  This is a CF forums, and what you're asking has nothing to do with CF at all, other than your question relates to web-based forms, and CF is a web-oriented technology.

    If I was faced with your requirement, I'd be checking the input device's website or community, and see what they've got: someone will have done this already, or it might be documented right out of the box.  You need to apporach this from the perspective of "how do I get this particular device to integrate with HTML forms and webpages" not "I have a web form... how do I get it to work with this input device" (if you see the subtle difference there: just one of where you start your investigation).

    Either way, CF won't know or care about how the client-side form is filled out,  all it will see is some form fields which have been sent to it via a POST or a GET HTTP request.  In fact it doesn't even care that there's a form involved.  All it deals with is HTTP requests, and the data therein.

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    Adam

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