Search for Electronic Signatures in Document

Electronically signed documents can be searched for specific signatures for different purposes, such as signature properties review, verification, and analysis.

GroupDocs.Signature for Python via .NET API allows you to search signatures within documents based on various search filters and returns a SearchResult whose signatures property lists the electronic signatures that match the search criteria.

Here’s a basic example of how to search for signatures in a document using Python:

from groupdocs.signature import Signature
from groupdocs.signature.options import TextSearchOptions

# Open the signed document
with Signature("signed.pdf") as signature:
    # Search for text signatures: pass a list of search options
    result = signature.search([TextSearchOptions()])

    # Process found signatures
    for text_signature in result.signatures:
        print(f"Found text signature: {text_signature.text}")
        print(f"Page number: {text_signature.page_number}")
        print(f"Position: X={text_signature.left}, Y={text_signature.top}")

The following articles discover how to find e-signatures of different types inside documents:

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