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Bates numbers (bates stamps, bates labels) are numbers used to uniquely identify pages within a set of documents. Bates numbers are used in almost all law firms as an agreed-upon method between parties to ensure a common naming convention when referring to given pages.

Important Bates stamps applied from other PDF programs or created with other tools may not be recognized by the program. You should visually confirm stamp removal. Select Edit > Insert > Bates Numbering > Remove to permanently remove Bates numbers from currently open files.

Bates Numbering, also known as Bates Stamping, is an indexing method used for legal, business and medical documents (PDFs in most cases). Bates Numbers are perceived as digital reference points used to uniquely identify and label each page in a set of documents.

Bates-labels may still be useful for physical documents, but they do not play well with modern evidence, which we refer to as electronically stored evidence (ESI for short). The very idea of applying a stamp - even an electronic stamp - to a computer file is counterintuitive, and for good reason.

Bates numbers (bates stamps, bates labels) are numbers used to uniquely identify pages within a set of documents. Bates numbers are used in almost all law firms as an agreed-upon method between parties to ensure a common naming convention when referring to given pages.

Bates stamping is the process of applying a set of identifying numbers to a document collection of PDFs to label and identify them. You can use DocPreviewer to apply a Bates stamp to documents ? even if you don't import them into a case spreadsheet.

For example, if XYZ company produces 25,000 pages to an opponent, it may Bates number the production "XYZ_000001 - XYZ_025000." Some lawyers refer to Bates numbers as Bates stamps because at one time the numbers were physically stamped on each page.

By default, Bates Numbers are located in the header or footer of the pages and can include a prefix and or a suffix or even to be combined with the existing header and footer text.

A unique numeric or alphanumeric identifier attached to individual documents and pages to make each document and page easily identifiable and retrievable. Bates numbers are used in the legal, medical, and business fields.

Historically, the Bates numbering process was accomplished using a Bates Stamper to index pages using a four-digit sequence.