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    <p>My company is considering offering a lightweight mobile web site for data entry in the field (we already have a thick-client mobile application). One hard requirement is that we must be able to capture a signature.</p> <p><strong>Is there any prior art for capturing a signature, specifically inside a web page running inside a mobile web browser, across a wide variety of mobile devices/web browsers?</strong> I am only asking for in-browser solutions, not thick-clients.</p> <p>For obvious reasons, the device would be required to have a touchscreen.</p> <p>Certainly there are many, many different mobile browsers out there with a wide variety of capabilities. The ideal solution would support as many browsers as possible and degrade gracefully based on browser capabilities.</p> <p>I am already aware that certain versions of Flash might provide the drawing APIs needed for something like this, assuming the desired device's browser supports Flash.</p> <p>I'm also aware of <a href="http://www.bennet-tec.com/btproducts/WebSignature" rel="noreferrer">a third party ActiveX/OCX control for Pocket IE</a> on Windows Mobile devices. It is necessary for the user to manually download/install the control within the browser before use. Unfortunate, but acceptable.</p> <p>I'm not personally aware of many mobile browsers that support hosting a Java applet, but there are probably some. Again, based on the support for various Java APIs, perhaps this would be a possible avenue.</p> <p>Javascript <em>could</em> do this, if the engine and processor are robust enough on the device.</p> <p>Finally, total pipe-dream here, perhaps one could have the user take a picture of a signature using the mobile device's camera on a plain piece of paper and somehow count that as a valid signature. However, this would produce a bitmap image, as opposed to vectors which I'd likely be collecting in all other instances. Also, it would be pretty difficult, if not impossible/unreasonable, to integrate the taking of the photo via a camera app and upload that using the web browser app while associating that specific image with the rest of the data being captured.</p> <p>Thanks.</p>
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    1. COYou can digitally sign stuff in PDFs but they definitely don't take the real signature. Is there anything to stop you from doing that here?
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    2. COI realise this is an old question but it's a popluar google search for the same topic. That bennet-tec control you link to is no good on newer versions of Internet Explorer and I don't think they've got any plans to upgrade it. We're searching for a solution to get away from them.
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