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Signature Center

Signature Center brings signing, validation, and trust-chain review into the same controlled document workflow.

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Problem

Sensitive PDFs can contain visible secrets, hidden data, active content, weak permissions, or signatures that need validation.

Use

Apply protection controls or inspect trust state, then retain evidence for the release decision.

Evidence plan

What this unlocks

  • Sign, certify, timestamp, and verify digital signatures
  • Run from the document workspace once signed in
  • Better package access keeps the path explicit

Workflow

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Simple pathForm W-9

Quick OCR and field check

Turn a scanned form into a searchable PDF and verify the obvious fields before routing it.

  1. 1Upload the W-9
  2. 2Run OCR
  3. 3Inspect detected text and form regions
  4. 4Save a searchable copy

Tool chain

OCRForms Ops StudioSet Metadata Studio
Searchable PDFField review notesClean source metadata
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Inputs & outputs

Accepted formats
pdf
Produced formats
pdf

Common use cases

  • Sign release-ready documents
  • Validate received signed PDFs
  • Review trust posture before archive or handoff

Workflow steps

  1. 1Select signing or validation mode
  2. 2Apply signatures or inspect trust signals
  3. 3Store the resulting verdict with the document history

Outputs

  • Protected or sanitized PDF
  • Verification report
  • Security audit entry

Review checks

  • Verify destructive changes
  • Separate secret delivery from artifact generation
  • Retain reports with the final version

API

Endpoint family: /v1/security, /v1/forensics, /v1/jobs
POST/v1/documents/uploadPOST/v1/ocr/{document_id}GET/v1/jobs/{job_id}/downloadPOST/v1/comparePOST/v1/ai/chatPOST/v1/processing/redact
  • Security operations should use scoped API keys and idempotency where supported.
  • Destructive operations such as true redaction and sanitization should be followed by verification jobs.
Integration overview

Limits

Availability
Included in Better
Readiness
beta
Automation
Single-document workflow

Confirm entitlement, input requirements, and deployment fit in the package and API documentation before you automate this capability.

Integration overview

Evidence

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Evidence is published with the related workflow and proof artifact when it is available for this capability.

Public example workflows

Integration overview
Simple

Quick OCR and field check

Form W-9

Turn a scanned form into a searchable PDF and verify the obvious fields before routing it.

Proof artifacts

Searchable PDF, Field review notes

Complex

Diligence review run

Adobe FY2025 Form 10-K

Compare revisions, summarize changes, extract tables, redact selected passages, and package the decision log for review.

Proof artifacts

Comparison report, Table export

Roles and use cases

Legal and review teams

Legal Ops

Prepare evidence-ready PDFs and review packages.

Connected tools

Compare PDFs, Redact & Remove, Encrypt PDF

Decision history: Compare review decisionsAudit record: Provenance ledger

Security teams

Security / IT

Control self-hosted processing, active content, and data paths.

Connected tools

Sanitize, JavaScript Control, Codec Policy

Review report: X-ray reportGenerated artifact: Parser diff scan

Governance and compliance teams

Compliance / Audit

Validate standards, signatures, audit trails, and retention posture.

Connected tools

Standards Preflight, Trust Chain Validation, Retention + Redaction

Preflight report: Standards preflight reportVerification result: Trust-chain verdict