Signature PDF

Free web software for signing (alone or with others), organizing (merge, sort, rotate, delete, extract pages, ...), editing metadatas or compressing PDFs.

Instances

List of instances where you can use this software:

• pdf.24eme.fr
• pdf.libreon.fr
• pdf.hostux.net
• pdf.nebulae.co
• pdf.kaosx.ovh
• pdf.ti-nuage.fr
• pdf.cemea.org
• pdf.spirio.fr
• pdf.sequanux.org
• pdf.deblan.org
• pdf.ouvaton.coop

Feel free to add yours through an issue or a pull request.

License

Open-source software under the AGPL V3 license.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Configuration
  • Enabling and Configuring Multi-Signature Mode
  • Disabling the Organize Mode
  • Hiding or Modifying the Demo PDF Link
  • Default Fields for Metadata Editing
• Update
• Tests
• Libraries Used
• Contributions
  • Translation
  • Contributors
  • Fundings
• Screenshots
  • Signature feature
  • Organizing feature
  • Metadata feature
  • Compression feature

Installation

• Debian/Ubuntu
• Docker
• Linux Alpine
• Package

Configuration

Enabling and Configuring Multi-Signature Mode

This mode allows multiple people to sign a PDF, but it requires that the PDFs be stored on the server.

It is not mandatory to enable this mode for the application to work; it is an option.

Create the config/config.ini file

cp config/config.ini{.example,}

In the config/config.ini file, configure the PDF_STORAGE_PATH variable with the path where uploaded PDF files can be stored:

PDF_STORAGE_PATH=/path/to/folder

Create this folder:

mkdir /path/to/folder

The web server should have write permissions on this folder.

For example, for Apache:

chown www-data /path/to/folder/to/store/pdf

Enabling digital signature

The digital signature depends on pdfsig from the poppler project (poppler-utils debian package) and certutil from libnss3 project (libnss3-tools debian package).

On debian :

sudo apt-get install poppler-utils libnss3-tools

To enable digital signature, create certificates in a NSS database. The shell script create_nss_certs.sh in tools helps to do it :

 bash tools/create_nss_certs.sh NSS_DIRECORY/ MY_NSS_PASSWORD MY_CERT_NICK MY_SIGNATUREPDF_URL

Once created, set the following directives in the config/config.ini file.

NSS3_DIRECTORY=NSS_DIRECORY/
NSS3_PASSWORD="MY_NSS_PASSWORD"
NSS3_NICK="MY_CERT_NICK"

You must then set the rights on the nss folder and its contents so that the web server has read access to it.

For example with apache on debian :

chown www-data:www-data -R NSS_DIRECORY

Disabling the Organize Mode

To disable the Organize mode, add DISABLE_ORGANIZATION=true to the config/config.ini file.

Hiding or Modifying the Demo PDF Link

To hide the demo PDF link, add PDF_DEMO_LINK=false to the config/config.ini file.

Default Fields for Metadata Editing

In the config/config.ini file, you can add as many fields as you want with the HTML input type (text, date, number, email, etc.) that will be preloaded for each PDF.

METADATA_DEFAULT_FIELDS[field1].type = "text"
METADATA_DEFAULT_FIELDS[field2].type = "text"
METADATA_DEFAULT_FIELDS[field3].type = "date"
METADATA_DEFAULT_FIELDS[field4].type = "number"

Update

The latest stable version is on the master branch. To update, simply fetch the latest changes:

git pull -r

Tests

To run functional tests:

make test

The tests are performed using puppeteer and jest.

To run the tests and view the browser (in debug mode):

DEBUG=1 make test

Libraries Used

• Fat-Free PHP micro framework: https://github.com/bcosca/fatfree (GPLv3)
• Bootstrap HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework: https://getbootstrap.com/ (MIT)
• PDF.js JavaScript library for rendering PDFs in an HTML canvas: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js (Apache-2.0)
• Fabric.js JavaScript library for manipulating an HTML canvas: https://github.com/fabricjs/fabric.js (MIT)
• PDFtk PDF manipulation tools (GPL)
• librsvg SVG manipulation tools: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg (LGPL-2+)
• potrace Bitmap to vector image conversion tools: http://potrace.sourceforge.net/ (GPLv2)
• OpenType.js Tools for converting text and its font into paths: https://github.com/opentypejs/opentype.js (MIT)
• ImageMagick Image manipulation toolset: https://imagemagick.org/ (Apache-2.0)
• Caveat Handwriting-style font: https://github.com/googlefonts/caveat (OFL-1.1)
• PDF-LIB JavaScript library for PDF manipulation used for writing metadata: https://pdf-lib.js.org/ (MIT)
• Ghostscript GPL Ghostscript is a software suite for processing PostScript and PDF file formats (GPLv3)
• GPG GnuPG allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communications (GPLv3)

For testing:

• Jest JavaScript Testing Framework: https://jestjs.io/ (MIT)
• Puppeteer Node.js library for controlling a web browser: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer (Apache-2.0)

Contributions

Translation

To update the translation, simply execute make that will update the .pot file, which will merge the .po files which then will allow to create updated .mo files.

Contributors

These people are the authors of the code of this software :

Vincent LAURENT (24ème), Jean-Baptiste Le Metayer (24ème), Xavier Garnier (Logilab), Simon Chabot (Logilab), Tangui Morlier (24ème), Gabriel POMA (24ème), Tanguy Le Faucheur (24ème), Étienne Deparis, battosai30

Fundings

• 1 365 € excl. taxes from the company Logilab for the development of the shared signature feature
• 1 950 € excl. taxes from the company Logilab for the development of the metadata editing feature
• 100 € excl. taxes donations from the company Spirkop
• 100 € excl. taxes donations from the company PDG IT
• 1 040 € excl. taxes from the foundation NLNet pour software internationalization

The development of the software was primarily done during the working hours of 24ème employees.

Screenshots

Signature feature

Organizing feature

Metadata feature

Compression feature