Ruby SDK to Apply Document eSignature

eSigning & digital signature functionality through Ruby RESTful APIs allow you to work with image signatures, stamps, barcodes and much more.

Ruby SDK for Electronic Signature REST API

GroupDocs.Signature Cloud SDK for Ruby

GroupDocs.Signature Cloud SDK for Ruby is a REST oriented API for easy integration into existing Ruby ‎based eSign and digital signature programs. This signature SDK helps you speed up the development ‎by taking care of low-level details, such as request and response handling. Moreover, it provides you ‎with a handy collection of features to apply various types of signatures, such as, image signatures, ‎barcode signatures, QR-Code signatures, text-based signatures, digital and stamp signatures. This ‎customizable Ruby based signature SDK allows you to work with signatures in spreadsheets, ‎presentations, images, portable and simple files of supported formats.‎‎

Platform Independence

GroupDocs.Signature set of SDK REST APIs is not dependent on your local operating system or ‎database. We offer our SDK APIs in numerous programming languages and with frequent new ‎additions.

SDK Requirements

Ruby Gem is required for communicating with the GroupDocs.Signature Cloud SDK API for Ruby.‎

Ruby Gem

GroupDocs.Signature

Supported File Formats

GroupDocs.Signature Cloud supports multiple types of electronic signatures. Following lists display which type of eSignature supports which type of file format:

Text, Stamp & Image Signatures

Word: DOC, DOCM, DOCX, DOT, DOTM, DOTX, RTF‎
Excel: XLS, XLSB, XLSM, XLSX, XLT, XLTM, XLTX
PowerPoint: POT, POTM, POTX, PPS, PPSM, PPSX, PPT, PPTM, PPTX
OpenDocument: ODT, ODP, ODS, OTT
Image: JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF
Portable: PDF

Digital Signature

Word: DOC, DOCM, DOCX, DOT, DOTM, DOTX‎
Excel: XLS, XLSB, XLSM, XLSX, XLT, XLTM, XLTX
PowerPoint: PPTM, PPTX
OpenDocument: ODT
Portable: PDF

Barcode Signature

Word: DOC, DOCM, DOCX, DOT, DOTM, DOTX, RTF‎
Excel: XLS, XLSB, XLSM, XLSX, XLT, XLTM, XLTX
PowerPoint: POT, POTM, PPSX, PPTX
OpenDocument: ODT, ODP, ODS, OTT
Image: JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF
Portable: PDF

QR-Code Signature

Word: DOC, DOCM, DOCX, DOT, DOTM, DOTX, RTF‎
Excel: XLS, XLSB, XLSM, XLSX, XLT, XLTM, XLTX
OpenDocument: OTT
Image: JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF
Portable: PDF

GroupDocs.Signature

Advanced Document Signature REST API Features

Get List of Supported Document Formats

Fetch List of Supported Encode Type Names for Barcode and QR-Code

Retrieve Document Information from File or Provided URL

Apply Signature to a Document using File Name or at Specified URL

Apply Background Brush & Text Alignment to Text Signatures

Verify Text and Digital Signatures for PDF, Word and Excel Documents using File or via URL

Verify Barcode and QR-Code Signatures for all Supported Document Formats‎ using File or via URL

Search Digital Signatures in PDF Files, Spreadsheets and Word Documents‎ in File or via URL

Search Barcode and QR-Code Signatures in all Supported Document Formats‎ in File or via URL

Add & Verify Multiple Signatures to Document using File Name or Provided URL

Search Multiple Signatures in a Document using its File Name or Provided URL

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Get Document Information

GroupDocs.Signature Cloud SDK for Ruby makes it very easy to work with eSignatures. In addition to applying digital signatures you can also manipulate document properties. Following example elaborates how to retrieve document information of a DOCX file using Ruby:

Get Document Information using Ruby

# Load the gem
require 'groupdocs_signature_cloud'
require 'groupdocs_signature_cloud/models/requests/get_document_info_request.rb'
require 'common_utilities/Utils.rb'
class DocumentInfo_File
  def self.Get_DocumentInfo_File()
    # Getting instance of the API
    api = Common_Utilities.Get_SignatureApi_Instance()
    request = GroupDocsSignatureCloud::GetDocumentInfoRequest.new("one-page.docx", "", "", $storage_name)
    response = api.get_document_info(request)
    puts("FleName: " + (response.name).to_s);
    puts("Folder: " + (response.folder).to_s);
  end
end

Set Background Brush for Stamp & Text Signatures

Using GroupDocs.Signature Cloud SDK for Ruby, you can set background brush effects for your text ‎as well as stamp signatures. Currently, the SDK supports to apply 4 different types of brushes, which ‎include, Radial Gradient Brush, Linear Gradient Brush, Textured Brush, and Solid Brush.‎