How do I fingerprint my documents?
Please follow these simple steps to fingerprint your HTML or XML page.
- Locate the text fragments you want to fingerprint inside your HTML or XML page. These fragments must be enclosed by matching HTML or XML tags such as <div>, <p>, <table>, <textarea>, etc. It is not allowed to have <script>, <iframe>, <object>, <applet>, <layer>, and <embed> HTML elements inside the fingerprinted fragment.
- In the opening tag, insert hashid="", so e.g. <div> becomes <div hashid="">.
- Upload the page to your site (it needn't be linked from other pages of your site at this moment).
- Login into your GenuineDoc account and click fingerprints link. Enter the URL of the page you just created and submit the form, GenuineDoc will parse the page, find all text fragments you want to fingerprint, calculate their fingerprints and fill in the corresponding hashid fields.
- The new page content will be displayed to you, you should save it, add a link to GenuineDoc verification script (if it was a HTML page), and re-upload it to your site. Click here to find out about verifying XML documents.
If you want to give your customers better assurance of your authorship of a document than fingerprinting can provide, you'll need to digitally sign it.