Question

[loracs]

Problem: Currently I scan in hundreds of documents each week that must be filed with our office.  We want to give people the option to submit them electronically as pdfs, but we need to have a legally accepted way to date stamp their arrival.  I've looked at Adobe's date/stamp info and it seems to be tied to a signature stamp.  What I couldn't find was if I can sign a document I did not create.  Anybody know anything about this or can point me to a website for more info.  I've looked at the 3rd party software and have the same question.
Thanks for any help.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

you should be able to use Verisign with a .pdf. You can sign a document you didn't create (it's often how contract executions are done).

http://www.verisign.com.au/repository/tutorial/digital/intro1.shtml

Do you have a document imaging/document management/e-records mgmt system available to you? they often have an e-date stamp or e-bates stamp function built in.

depending on how deep you want to research the topic:
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:viz4tn06RHAJ:www.interpostinc.com/interpost_white_paper.pdf+virtual+date+stamp+%2B+electronic+document&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us