Updating QR-code signatures with advanced options

GroupDocs.Signature provides QrCodeSignature class to manipulate qr-code signatures location, size, textual content and encode type over Update method of Signature class. This method returns UpdateResult object to analyze if signatures were successfully processed.

Please be aware that Update method modifies the same document that was passed to constructor of Signature class. The UpdateResult contains list of successfully updated signatures and ones that failed. The Barcode signature could be failed to update due to several reasons:

  • if signature object was initialized with constructor by incorrect signature identifier;
  • if signature object was not found;
  • there was an error occurred while updating signature in the document.

Here are the steps to update QR-code signature in the document with GroupDocs.Signature:

Here are the alternative steps to update QR-code signature in the document with GroupDocs.Signature. This approach is based on saved signatures Id after Search or Sign methods.

  • Create new instance of Signature class and pass source document path as a constructor parameter;
  • Instantiate one or several QrCodeSignature objects with signature Id(s) passed to constructor;
  • Call Signature class object Update method and pass one or several signatures to it;
  • Analyze UpdateResult result to check whether signatures were updated or not.

The following table describes changeable properties for QR-code signatures dependent on document type

Document Type / Signature PropertyLeftTopWidthHeightEncodeTypeTextIsSignature
Image(error)(error)(error)(error)(error)(error)(error)
Spreadsheet(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(tick)
Pdf(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(tick)
Presentation(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(tick)
Word Processing(tick)(tick)(tick)(tick)(error)(error)(tick)

This example shows how to update QR-code signature that was found using Search method.

// initialize Signature instance
using (Signature signature = new Signature("sampleSigned.pdf"))
{
    QrCodeSearchOptions options = new QrCodeSearchOptions();
    List<QrCodeSignature> signatures = signature.Search<QrCodeSignature>(options);
    // adjust signature properties
    foreach (QrCodeSignature temp in signatures)
    {
        // apply some condition to adjust signature properties
        if (temp.Text == "Test1")
        {
            temp.Left = temp.Left + 10;
            temp.Top = temp.Top + 10;
            temp.IsSignature = false;
        }
        else
        {
            temp.IsSignature = true;
        }
    }
    // update all found signatures
    UpdateResult updateResult = signature.Update(signatures.ConvertAll(p => (BaseSignature)p));
    if (updateResult.Succeeded.Count == signatures.Count)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("\nAll signatures were successfully updated!");
    }
    else
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"Successfully updated signatures : {updateResult.Succeeded.Count}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Not updated signatures : {updateResult.Failed.Count}");
    }
    Console.WriteLine("List of updated signatures:");
    foreach (BaseSignature temp in updateResult.Succeeded)
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"Signature# Id:{temp.SignatureId}, Location: {temp.Left}x{temp.Top}. Size: {temp.Width}x{temp.Height}");
    }
}

Update QR-code signature in document by known signature Identifier

This example shows how to update QR-code signature in the document by known signature Id (that was obtained by Search or Sign method previously).

// initialize Signature instance
using (Signature signature = new Signature("signed.xlsx"))
{
    // read from some data source signature Id value
    string[] signatureIdList = new string[]
    {
        "1dd21cf3-b904-4da9-9413-1ff1dab51974",
        "9e386726-a773-4971-b2fc-eaadfce65ffd"
    };
    // create list of QR-code Signature by known SignatureId
    List<BaseSignature> signatures = new List<BaseSignature>();
    signatureIdList.ToList().ForEach(p => signatures.Add(new QrCodeSignature(p)));
    // update all found signatures
    UpdateResult updateResult = signature.Update(signatures);
    if (updateResult.Succeeded.Count == signatures.Count)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("All signatures were successfully updated!");
    }
    else
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"Successfully updated signatures : {updateResult.Succeeded.Count}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Not updated signatures : {updateResult.Failed.Count}");
    }
    Console.WriteLine("List of updated signatures:");
    foreach (BaseSignature temp in updateResult.Succeeded)
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"Signature# Id:{temp.SignatureId}, Location: {temp.Left}x{temp.Top}. Size: {temp.Width}x{temp.Height}");
    }
}

More resources

GitHub Examples

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

Free Online Apps

Along with the full-featured .NET library, we provide simple but powerful free online apps.

To sign PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other documents you can use the online apps from the GroupDocs.Signature App Product Family.