Adobe Sign and Box Sign are two products for preparing, sending, and signing documents for e-signatures. Before sending a document or form through an e-signature product, it must be converted into a digital file format. Keep in mind that documents used with Adobe Sign cannot exceed 10 MB.
Turning physical forms into digital files
Turning Microsoft Word documents into PDFs
Turning JPG/PNG photos into PDFs
Reducing PDF documents to under 10MB
Additional Resources
Turning physical forms into digital files
There are many ways to turn a physical form into a digital format:
- Scan documents with a mobile device camera and place them in your Google Drive.
- Download a document scanner app for your phone (Adobe Scan (for Android and iOS), CamScanner, TurboScan, Scanner Pro, Genius Scan, Prizmo)
- These apps turn the camera of your phone into a document scanner so you can scan and upload your document.
- This website lists these different apps and the pros/cons of each.
- Use a local scanner. Scanning the document to your computer will take that physical document into a digital file that you are then able to send.
- Use a local business that has scanning capabilities (fees may apply):
FedEx
https://www.fedex.com/en-us/office/in-store-services.html
UPS
https://www.theupsstore.com/store-services/computer-access
Office Depot/OfficeMax
https://www.officedepot.com/cm/print-and-copy/same-day-printing
Staples
https://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/products/copy-and-print/160509/54368/index.html
Turning Microsoft Word documents into PDFs
- In Microsoft Word, click the File tab then click Save As.
- Click Browse and choose a location for the file.
- Click the file type drop down list (next to the File name field) and choose PDF Files (*.pdf).
Turning JPG/PNG photos into PDFs
Mac users
- Click the Preview app icon
- Select an image to convert.
- Click Open.
- Click File.
- Click Print.
- Click the PDF drop-down box.
- Click Save as PDF.
Windows users
- Right click on the image file.
- Select Print.
- Select Microsoft Print to PDF.
- Click Print.
Reducing PDF documents to under 10MB
Additional Resources
- For general assistance using Adobe Sign and Box Sign open the Sending Documents and Using e-Signatures knowledge base article
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