No. A Notary Public may only perform notarial acts by requiring a
personal appearance. The document signer must always appear before the Notary
for the notarization. Remember that the primary function of a Notary
Public is to prevent fraud. Notaries do this by requiring the personal
physical presence of the signer and making a positive identification of the
signer. Often, forgeries occur because the notary fails to require the
document signer to be present for the notarization.