The company plans to incorporate EchoSign's cloud-based digital signature service into tools like SendNow for file transfer, FormsCentral for form creation and CreatePDF.
“By adding electronic signature capabilities to Adobe’s document exchange services platform," said Kevin M. Lynch, vice president and general manager of Acrobat Solutions, in a statement, "we will be ... significantly reducing the time, cost and complexity associated with having a document signed.”
As a result of the acquistion, reports PC World, Adobe will abandon the eSignatures service that it released last May.
How the new paperless signature solution will be integrated is still unknown. Currently, the service is offered to more than 3 million users at a monthly subscription fee. Whether or not Adobe has an add-on paid service or a free tool in mind for its own products isn't clear. The eSignatures beta service is free.