What is PDF Verified?

PDF Verified (pdfverified.com) is an online platform to sign, stamp and verify PDF documents. You can send a document for legally binding electronic signatures, add a digital rubber stamp or company seal, and let anyone confirm the finished file is authentic and unaltered through a public QR code and SHA-256 audit trail. It is pay-as-you-go with no subscription required, and eIDAS + ESIGN + UETA compliant across 190+ countries.

How is PDF Verified different from DocuSign?

PDF Verified offers unlimited documents on the $15 Business plan with REST API included. DocuSign charges $40+/user for Business and gates the API behind a $720/month add-on. PDF Verified also includes unique features: public QR verification page on every signed PDF, eStamp designer, AI field auto-detection, and mobile-first signing without requiring an app.

Can I use PDF Verified without a subscription?

Yes. The pay-as-you-go option lets you sign or send one document or envelope for $1.50 without a monthly subscription. Monthly paid plans include a 7-day free trial.

Which file types can I sign with PDF Verified?

Upload PDF, DOCX, TXT, PNG or JPG files. Non-PDF formats are automatically converted to PDF on upload so signers always receive a clean signing-ready document.

How do recipients verify a signed document is authentic?

Every signed PDF includes a QR code on every page. Anyone, even without a PDF Verified account, can scan it to land on a public verification page showing the document status, completion date, SHA-256 fingerprint, and tamper-evidence proof.

Does PDF Verified work on mobile?

Yes, PDF Verified is mobile-first by design. The signing portal uses a native bottom-sheet pattern with touch-optimized canvas signing, sticky CTAs in the thumb zone, and 44px+ touch targets following Apple Human Interface Guidelines. No app download required.

Can I add a company stamp or seal to a document?

Yes. PDF Verified includes a stamp designer for company seals, official seals, approval stamps (APPROVED, PAID, RECEIVED), date stamps, and certified-true-copy marks. Place a stamp on any document like a signature field. On Business plans, the verified stamp library adds auto-incrementing serial numbers, locked metadata, workspace sharing, revocation, and a public QR verification link for every stamp applied.

How do I verify a stamp is genuine?

Each stamp PDF Verified applies mints a unique verification token at /verify-stamp/:token. Scan the stamp's QR code or open the link from the document's audit certificate to see the stamp's name, serial number, the document it was applied to, and whether it has been revoked, so anyone can confirm a company seal or approval stamp is authentic and current.

How do I verify a signature on a PDF is real?

Open the verification page at pdfverified.com/verify and scan the QR code on the signed PDF, paste the verification code, or upload the file. PDF Verified recomputes the document's SHA-256 fingerprint and compares it against the sealed value, if a single byte changed since signing, verification fails. You also see every signer, their timestamps, and the full tamper-evident audit trail. No account is required to verify.

How do I add a digital stamp to a PDF online?

Upload your PDF, open the editor, add a Stamp field, and pick a stamp from your library, a company seal, an APPROVED or PAID approval stamp, a date stamp, or a certified-true-copy mark. The stamp is baked into the sealed PDF with an optional auto-incrementing serial number and a QR code that links to its public verification page. No printer, ink pad, or scanner needed.

Can PDF Verified check if a PDF has been edited?

Yes. PDF Verified can recompute the SHA-256 fingerprint of a signed PDF and compare it with the fingerprint sealed at completion. If the file was edited after signing, the fingerprint changes and verification fails.

Does PDF Verified include a certificate of completion?

Yes. Completed documents include an audit certificate, also called a certificate of completion, with signer identities, timestamps, IP records, document fingerprint, verification status, and the event history needed for legal review.

Does PDF Verified include an eSignature API?

Yes. Business plans include a REST API and webhooks for sending documents, embedding signing, applying stamps, checking status, and building automated signing workflows.

Can I create a company chop or official seal online?

Yes. PDF Verified includes editable company seal, company chop, official seal, date stamp, and approval stamp templates. Verified stamps can include serial numbers, locked metadata, revocation, and a public QR verification page.

What is the best DocuSign alternative for stamps, seals, and verification?

PDF Verified is built for teams that need more than basic eSignature: public QR verification, PDF authenticity checks, serialized stamps, company seals, audit certificates, and pay-as-you-go signing from $1.50.

Electronic signatures for government and public sector

Permits, approvals, and citizen forms, signed and publicly verifiable.

Public-sector paperwork is a prime target for fraud, forged permits, doctored tender documents, and procurement officers who later deny (or falsely claim) they signed an award. PDF Verified seals permits, approvals, and tender documents with a public QR page and a tamper-evident SHA-256 fingerprint, so any citizen or agency can confirm a document is genuine and prove exactly who signed it, when, and from where, no portal login, no "my signature was forged" excuse.

Drop your document here and sign it now. PDF, Word and Excel all work: a .docx or .xlsx is laid out in your browser exactly as it was written, so there is nothing to convert first. Add a signature, a date, a company stamp or a watermark, then download it sealed. Free to start, no account, and the file is never uploaded to open it.

Documents Government & public sector teams sign

Permit and license
Tender / procurement award
Approval / authorization letter
Citizen application form
Inter-agency memorandum
Certificate of completion

How PDF Verified fits

Public QR verification on every permit and tender award, anyone can confirm authenticity and catch forgeries.
KYC / ID + liveness binds each signature to the real official, so nobody can deny signing or forge an approval.
Immutable audit trail (who, when, IP) is the anti-corruption evidence trail for tender and procurement disputes.
Serialized verified stamps and official seals with revocation.
Sequential routing for multi-level approvals + bulk send for mass citizen notices.

Tender fraud and "I never signed that" die when every award carries a QR-verifiable, identity-bound signature nobody can forge or disown.

How it works for Government & public sector teams

Upload the document. Drop in a PDF (or Word/Excel, they convert automatically) and place signature, date, stamp, and initials fields where they belong.
Send or sign on the spot. Email a signing link to each party, or use Quick Sign to sign immediately on any device, no printing, no scanning, no app to install.
Identity when it matters. For high-stakes Government & public sector paperwork, add email/SMS OTP checks or full ID + selfie verification with liveness detection before anyone can sign.
Every copy is provable. The finished PDF is sealed with a SHA-256 fingerprint, a complete audit trail (who signed, when, from where), and a QR code anyone can scan to confirm the document is genuine and unaltered.

Why it beats print, sign and scan

A scanned signature page proves nothing, the image can be lifted and reused on any document, and there is no way to tell whether the pages around it changed. A sealed PDF Verified document is the opposite: change one character after signing and verification fails. For Government & public sector teams that answer to auditors, regulators, or opposing counsel, that difference is the whole point.

It is also simply faster. Documents that took days of chasing come back in minutes, reminders go out automatically, and the signed copy files itself on your dashboard instead of a shared-drive folder of "final_v3_signed_SCAN.pdf".

Company stamps for government & public sector

A signature says a person agreed. A stamp says the organisation did, and in government & public sector that distinction turns up constantly: on an approval, a certified copy, a receipt, or an invoice an accounts department will not process without the company mark on it. Design a company stamp for government & public sector once and apply it to a PDF, a Word file or an Excel sheet, on one page or on every page.

The date fills itself in at the moment the stamp is applied, so a batch is never dated wrong, and every impression carries a serial number that does not repeat, which is what makes a stamped government & public sector document auditable rather than merely marked. Anyone can scan the QR on the result to confirm the document has not changed since.

Approved, Business
Gold certificate seal, Business
Certified agency, Business
Notary public, Legal

Design a company stamp or seal free, or put the stamp and the signature on in one pass.

Legal validity

Electronic signatures are legally binding for ordinary business documents in 190+ countries, the ESIGN Act and UETA in the United States, eIDAS in the EU, KICA in Kenya, and equivalents across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Courts look for intent, identity, and integrity; PDF Verified records all three: a click-to-sign action with timestamps, verified signer identity, and a tamper-evident cryptographic seal.

Frequently asked questions

How does PDF Verified work for Government & public sector?

Is PDF Verified legally binding for Government & public sector documents?

Yes. PDF Verified eSignatures comply with the ESIGN Act, UETA, and EU eIDAS, and every signed Government & public sector document includes a SHA-256 tamper-evident seal, a full audit trail, and a public QR verification page, admissible as evidence in most jurisdictions.

Can I add a company stamp to government & public sector documents?

Yes. Design a round company seal, an approval mark, a PAID or RECEIVED stamp or a certified true copy stamp, and place it beside the signature or on every page. It works on PDFs and equally on the Word and Excel files government & public sector teams actually work in, without exporting them first. Whether a stamp is required for a given document is a question for the party asking and for local practice, but where it is expected, providing it is faster than debating it.

What does it cost?

Pay as you go at $1.50 per completed document with no subscription, or take a monthly plan (Personal from $5.60/mo) when volume grows. Building and testing documents is free, you only pay when a signing completes.

Start free

Sign your first document in about a minute with <a href="/quick-sign">Quick Sign</a>, design an official <a href="/stamp-maker">company stamp or seal</a>, or <a href="/verify">verify a signed PDF</a> someone sent you.

What PDF Verified is, and what it is not

These checks are a screen, not a verdict. A clean result means nothing was found by the checks that were run, which is not the same as proof that a document is genuine, and a flagged result can have an innocent explanation such as a re-save or a scan. Read the findings rather than the headline, and where a decision carries real consequences, confirm the document with the party that issued it. It is a tool for examining a document, not for producing a forged or altered one.

PDF Verified is a tool for preparing, signing, stamping and checking documents. It is not a law firm, a compliance service or a forensic examiner, and nothing here is legal, financial or compliance advice. Requirements differ by country, by document type and by the party asking, so check what applies to your document before you rely on it, and take advice where the document matters. You are responsible for the documents you create, sign and send, and for having the authority to do so: signing or stamping in somebody else name, or as an organisation you do not represent, is forgery whatever tool is used. To the extent the law allows, we accept no liability for how a document made with this tool is used or relied on. The full position is in our terms of service.