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Detect fields automatically

Let swipesign find likely signature fields for you, and what to do when it finds nothing.

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Smart auto-detect sits at the top of the Signers & viewers panel. It reads the document, looks for places that seem to want a signature, and places fields there so you do not have to.

Using it

  1. 1
    Add your signers first. Auto-detect needs to know who the fields belong to.
  2. 2
    Click Smart auto-detect.
  3. 3
    Check what it placed. Anything it got wrong you can drag, resize or delete like a field you placed yourself.

When it finds nothing

You get No further signature fields detected, and nothing is placed.

The builder panel showing the message "No further signature fields detected" beneath the Smart auto-detect button.

This is common and not a fault. Detection works from the text in the document, so it does well with a clear Signature: label and poorly with a scanned page, a photographed contract, or a layout that only implies where to sign.

It also means "no further fields": if you have already placed some, it will not duplicate them.

It is a shortcut, not a check
Auto-detect finding nothing does not mean the document is wrong, and finding something does not mean it found everything. Always look at what ended up on the page before you send.

Do it by hand instead

Drag a field from a signer card straight onto the page wherever you want it. For a one-page agreement with two signatures that is quicker than checking what auto-detect guessed. See Place signature fields.

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