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Part of the j2 Global, Inc group, eFax a provider of cloud-based fax services, recently launched its improved iPhone (News - Alert) app that features a new digitized signature feature. This new feature will help mobile professional subscribers sign business documents like contracts or invoices directly from their smartphones. The app also gives business professionals the option of managing their documents efficiently without having to turn on their computer or printer.

In a release, Mike Pugh, vice president of marketing for j2 Global (News - Alert), said, "eFax users expressed the need to provide approvals and authorizations in a simple and quick way when away from their desks. For our customers who spend time in airports, taxis, conference rooms, and customer sites, the app now includes the ability to add their digitized signature to documents right from their iPhone."

While the main enhancement is the digitized signature feature, the app also gives iPhone users a number of other mobile faxing capabilities such as the ability to create and send faxes where users can take photos of documents and the app will enhance the images, combine them, and fax them out just like a fax machine.

Users will also be able to: view and search all received faxes; convert faxes into searchable documents using optical character recognition technology, allowing them to be acted upon anywhere, anytime; use cover sheets and contact lists to create customized fax cover sheets;            and use the iPhone contact lists to populate faxes and add search tags to individual faxes and archive them for convenient access later.

eFax users will now have the option to put their digitized signatures onto all kinds of documents such as time sheets, expense reports and invoices. They will be able to do this from the iPhone and will no longer need to go back to their workstations to print, sign and forward hard copies.

Those documents that require a signature can be faxed to a user's eFax account, where one can then add a digitized signature in a snap and send the approved document via email or fax.