The 30-year-old has agreed a one-year contract to become manager Allan Johnston's fifth summer signing after impressing during a trial spell with the club.

Hutton spent two seasons with the Honest Men and can also count Clyde, Greenock Morton and Queen of the South among his former clubs.

A former team-mate of Johnston's at Palmerston, Hutton has kept three clean sheets in trial appearances for the Pars against East Fife, Partick Thistle and on Saturday in a 0-0 friendly draw with Livingston.

The recruitment of a goalkeeper was a priority for Johnston after Ryan Scully returned to parent club Partick Thistle at the end of last season, while Ryan Goodfellow and Jamie Wilson did not have their contracts renewed.

We will have a full interview with Hutton in this Thursday's Dunfermline Press.