Electronic signatures deliver a way to sign documents in the online world, much like we sign a document with a pen in the offline world. An electronic signature is a symbol or other data in a digital format that is used to identify a person and is applied to an electronic document by that person with an intent to sign. Most often, eSignatures take the form of an image of a physical signature.
An electronic signature can have as much value as the handwritten version and fulfil the same functions: identification of the signatory, validation, and certification of the document, and non-repudiation.
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