Working at a University it is mind boggling to me how much paper is waster because someone internally decided they need a real signature. Not all my colleagues are savyy enough to paste a scanned signature into a pdf.
Germany requires some signing software for pdfs - though printed-signed-scanned documents are also legally valid signatures
There was a legislature in America that tried to define pi as 3 so irrational laws are not surprising.
By the way, in Spain printed-signed-scanned wouldn't be legally valid either, unless a notary has seen the original and can certify that it coincides with their own handwritten signature. Otherwise it's either original handwritten signature, or digital signature in a digital PDF file, or printed digital signature with a secure validation code that you can verify in some URL.
One challenge with potentially invalid documents - when agreements go south and disgruntled employees get a free wrench to toss into the works.
Another motivator is not wanting to risk cheesing off judges.
source: Once prepped federal cases
Is there any place where it does? It seems ridiculous to me to treat copy-pasted bitmap same as real signature.
The point is that most of these "need a real signature" requirements are arbitrary and inhouse. Not really legal requirements. So the processes could easily be done without.
In a certain way I kind of enjoy printing to a printer that's not near me, if it can get away with it, if I have printed something off to read over the course of a week I feel like it adds some gravitas to actually go and fetch it.