diff --git a/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/controller/api/security/CertSignController.java b/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/controller/api/security/CertSignController.java
index f8e5f25e..27262feb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/controller/api/security/CertSignController.java
+++ b/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/controller/api/security/CertSignController.java
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.security.KeyStore;
 import java.security.KeyStoreException;
 import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
 import java.util.Calendar;
 import java.util.List;
 
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.examples.signature.CreateSignatureBase;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;
@@ -92,7 +94,7 @@ public class CertSignController {
     }
 
     class CreateSignature extends CreateSignatureBase {
-        File imageFile;
+        File logoFile;
 
         public CreateSignature(KeyStore keystore, char[] pin)
                 throws KeyStoreException,
@@ -102,11 +104,17 @@ public class CertSignController {
                         CertificateException {
             super(keystore, pin);
             ClassPathResource resource = new ClassPathResource("static/images/signature.png");
-            imageFile = resource.getFile();
+            try (InputStream is = resource.getInputStream()) {
+                logoFile = Files.createTempFile("signature", ".png").toFile();
+                FileUtils.copyInputStreamToFile(is, logoFile);
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                logger.error("Failed to load image signature file");
+                throw e;
+            }
         }
 
         public InputStream createVisibleSignature(
-                PDDocument srcDoc, PDSignature signature, Integer pageNumber, Boolean showImage)
+                PDDocument srcDoc, PDSignature signature, Integer pageNumber, Boolean showLogo)
                 throws IOException {
             // modified from org.apache.pdfbox.examples.signature.CreateVisibleSignature2
             try (PDDocument doc = new PDDocument()) {
@@ -145,7 +153,7 @@ public class CertSignController {
                 widget.setAppearance(appearance);
 
                 try (PDPageContentStream cs = new PDPageContentStream(doc, appearanceStream)) {
-                    if (showImage) {
+                    if (showLogo) {
                         cs.saveGraphicsState();
                         PDExtendedGraphicsState extState = new PDExtendedGraphicsState();
                         extState.setBlendMode(BlendMode.MULTIPLY);
@@ -153,7 +161,7 @@ public class CertSignController {
                         cs.setGraphicsStateParameters(extState);
                         cs.transform(Matrix.getScaleInstance(0.08f, 0.08f));
                         PDImageXObject img =
-                                PDImageXObject.createFromFileByExtension(imageFile, doc);
+                                PDImageXObject.createFromFileByExtension(logoFile, doc);
                         cs.drawImage(img, 100, 0);
                         cs.restoreGraphicsState();
                     }
@@ -219,6 +227,7 @@ public class CertSignController {
         String location = request.getLocation();
         String name = request.getName();
         Integer pageNumber = request.getPageNumber() - 1;
+        Boolean showLogo = request.isShowLogo();
 
         if (certType == null) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cert type must be provided");
@@ -258,7 +267,8 @@ public class CertSignController {
                 pageNumber,
                 name,
                 location,
-                reason);
+                reason,
+                showLogo);
         return WebResponseUtils.boasToWebResponse(
                 baos,
                 Filenames.toSimpleFileName(pdf.getOriginalFilename()).replaceFirst("[.][^.]+$", "")
@@ -274,7 +284,8 @@ public class CertSignController {
             Integer pageNumber,
             String name,
             String location,
-            String reason) {
+            String reason,
+            Boolean showLogo) {
         try (PDDocument doc = pdfDocumentFactory.load(input)) {
             PDSignature signature = new PDSignature();
             signature.setFilter(PDSignature.FILTER_ADOBE_PPKLITE);
@@ -287,7 +298,7 @@ public class CertSignController {
             if (showSignature) {
                 SignatureOptions signatureOptions = new SignatureOptions();
                 signatureOptions.setVisualSignature(
-                        instance.createVisibleSignature(doc, signature, pageNumber, true));
+                        instance.createVisibleSignature(doc, signature, pageNumber, showLogo));
                 signatureOptions.setPage(pageNumber);
 
                 doc.addSignature(signature, instance, signatureOptions);
diff --git a/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/model/api/security/SignPDFWithCertRequest.java b/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/model/api/security/SignPDFWithCertRequest.java
index d3399db9..6949a95e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/model/api/security/SignPDFWithCertRequest.java
+++ b/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/model/api/security/SignPDFWithCertRequest.java
@@ -50,4 +50,7 @@ public class SignPDFWithCertRequest extends PDFFile {
             description =
                     "The page number where the signature should be visible. This is required if showSignature is set to true")
     private Integer pageNumber;
+
+    @Schema(description = "Whether to visually show a signature logo along with the signature")
+    private boolean showLogo;
 }
diff --git a/src/main/resources/messages_en_GB.properties b/src/main/resources/messages_en_GB.properties
index 019930d8..f124bec8 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/messages_en_GB.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/messages_en_GB.properties
@@ -750,6 +750,7 @@ certSign.showSig=Show Signature
 certSign.reason=Reason
 certSign.location=Location
 certSign.name=Name
+certSign.showLogo=Show Logo
 certSign.submit=Sign PDF
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/resources/messages_en_US.properties b/src/main/resources/messages_en_US.properties
index bfb5d8e7..2da78640 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/messages_en_US.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/messages_en_US.properties
@@ -750,6 +750,7 @@ certSign.showSig=Show Signature
 certSign.reason=Reason
 certSign.location=Location
 certSign.name=Name
+certSign.showLogo=Show Logo
 certSign.submit=Sign PDF
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/resources/templates/security/cert-sign.html b/src/main/resources/templates/security/cert-sign.html
index ab9a755a..e69c4fa1 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/templates/security/cert-sign.html
+++ b/src/main/resources/templates/security/cert-sign.html
@@ -71,7 +71,11 @@
                     <label for="name" th:text="#{certSign.name}"></label> <input type="text" class="form-control" id="name" name="name">
                   </div>
                   <div class="mb-3">
-                    <label for="pageNumber" th:text="#{pageNum}"></label> <input type="number" class="form-control" id="pageNumber" name="pageNumber" min="1">
+                    <label for="pageNumber" th:text="#{pageNum}"></label> <input type="number" class="form-control" id="pageNumber" name="pageNumber" min="1" value="1">
+                  </div>
+                  <div class="form-check mb-3">
+                    <input type="checkbox" id="showLogo" name="showLogo" checked />
+                    <label th:text="#{certSign.showLogo}" for="showLogo"></label>
                   </div>
                 </div>
                 <div class="mb-3 text-left">