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for Easy Document Signing |
Writing on the document
You can launch CursiVision with your document in different ways:
- Dragging a PDF file onto the CursiVision icon on your desktop. When you do this, CursiVision launches and is active in signing mode. If you've never signed this document before, or if you don't have CursiVision configured to remember signing locations, you move the mouse over the document (any page) and click where you want the signing to occur (CursiVision will show you an outline indicating the size of your signature pad while moving the mouse). If you’ve written on this document before – CursiVision will have remembered where and immediately go there and wait for your signature.
- Drag a PDF file onto the CursiVision window, or use, File – PDF File to open a PDF file. After the PDF file is open, you can begin writing by clicking the "write" icon in the toolbar.
- Print your document to the CursiVision print driver. You can print any document from any Windows application and CursiVision will immediately launch and gather your signature(s).
Our focus here is how to use the system when either of the first two options is used. Please visit the above link to see how the print driver works.
Figure 1 shows CursiVision waiting for you to navigate and write.
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| Figure 1. CursiVision is ready |
Here, CursiVision is waiting for you to navigate the document to write. You can scroll to the any page you desire. Note that the document is always in "full page" mode.
Once you navigate to the desired page click the 
button in the toolbar. Move the mouse over the page and click the left mouse button.
During this mouse motion, CursiVision will display an outline that indicates which part of the document will be displayed on the signature pad device, and, of course, where the signature will be placed back on the document. Note that the signature pad device's physical width (in inches) is configurable. This width does not have to be the same as the pad's actual width, CursiVision will zoom the content in or out as appropriate.
Upon mouse click at the desired location, CursiVision displays the selected document content on the signature pad device and waits for your signature. Note that you can move and size the location at this point to change it, or to zoom it in or out, the display on the signature pad device will follow appropriately.
Figure 2 shows CursiVision waiting for you to write on the signature pad device.
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| Figure 2. CursiVision is waiting for the signature |
The Signature pad device will contain the image from the location on the document, as well as a Clear and Ok button for the signer to indicate they want to start over or finish. Note that Non-LCD signature pads, currently only the Scriptel ST-1500 pad, cannot display anything, so they work by automatically submitting the signature after a configurable amount of time has elapsed after the signer last writes to the pad.
Upon finishing (signer taps the ok button on the pad), the signature is placed in the document and the document is passed to all of the CursiVision tools you have selected and configured to use for this document. Note also the "Signing Control Panel" in Figure 2. An individual at the computer running CursiVision can Clear and submit the signature as well with the buttons appearing in that window.
If you initiate CursiVision by the methods described here (not by printing to the CursiVision Print Driver), CursiVision will recognize the document based on the folder and file name of the document. Thus, if the file is on a network folder, perhaps your process would consist of some other tool placing a file of that name into that folder, and you launch CursiVision in order to start the signing process (which may include any number of the CursiVision document management tools being executed as well).
Note that launching CursiVision by printing a document to the print driver is more seamless, because that automatically launches CursiVision - AND the document recognition technology used is based on the content of the document, as opposed to it's location.