pdfsigner: Digitally Sign and Verify PDF Documents

Digitally sign PDF documents with a 'PKCS#12' keystore and verify their signatures. Signing produces a detached 'PKCS#7' / 'CMS' signature ('adbe.pkcs7.detached') over the document and is applied as an incremental update, so existing signatures remain valid. The cryptography and PDF manipulation are performed by a bundled, pure-'Rust' backend (the 'pdf_signer' crate); no Java runtime, 'OpenSSL', or external command-line tools are required. Visible signature appearances with custom text are supported.

Version: 0.2.2
Depends: R (≥ 4.2)
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-06-21
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.pdfsigner (may not be active yet)
Author: Andre Leite [aut, cre], Hugo Vasconcelos [aut], Diogo Bezerra [aut], Authors of the vendored Rust crates [ctb, cph] (see inst/AUTHORS for the bundled crates and their licences)
pdfsigner author details
Maintainer: Andre Leite <leite at castlab.org>
BugReports: https://github.com/StrategicProjects/pdfsigner/issues
License: GPL-3
Copyright: The pdfsigner package and its bundled 'pdf_signer' Rust backend are released under GPL-3. The build vendors the source of third-party Rust crates (src/rust/vendor.tar.xz) that remain under the copyright of their respective authors and are licensed under permissive terms (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, Zlib, Unicode-3.0, 0BSD, Unlicense or CDLA-Permissive-2.0); see the inst/AUTHORS file for the full list.
URL: https://github.com/StrategicProjects/pdfsigner
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: Cargo (Rust's package manager), rustc
Materials: README
CRAN checks: pdfsigner results [issues need fixing before 2026-07-06]

Documentation:

Reference manual: pdfsigner.html , pdfsigner.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: pdfsigner_0.2.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: pdfsigner_0.2.2.zip, r-oldrel: pdfsigner_0.2.2.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): pdfsigner_0.2.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): pdfsigner_0.2.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): pdfsigner_0.2.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): pdfsigner_0.2.2.tgz

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