Digitized hand-written signatures. For people regularly dealing with entities such as governments or paper-loving companies requesting manually signed documents (W9, etc.), here's an online solution: a new startup offering to automatically get your documents signed without using paper nor a scanner. Here's how it works:

1. When you sign up, you enter your full name in text format (ASCII) on a web form
2. A web app will offer you 20 possible graphical signatures based on your name
3. You select one graphic signature
4. Next time you log-on to the website to submit a document (Word or PDF), your signature will automatically be added as a PNG image with a background color matching your document background. It will then electronically be sent to your target fax number or email address. The recipient will never know that the transaction did not involve paper.

Question: would this technology eventually kill the scanner?

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