How To Bates Number a PDF:
1. Drop your PDF file in the box above 2. Click the Bates Number PDF button 3. Set your prefix, suffix and number of digits 4. Choose the start number, position, size and colour, then a page range 5. Download your Bates numbered PDFPrefix, Suffix and Zero Padding
Build the identifier your matter already uses: a prefix such as SMITH, a suffix where the protocol asks for one, and a digit count that pads the figure out to 000001. Every stamped page carries the same layout.
A Sequential Identifier, Not A Page Count
Each stamped page takes the next number in the run, so the label identifies the page itself rather than its place in the file. That is what lets counsel cite one page out of a production of thousands.
Choose Where The Run Starts
Set the start value to carry on from the last batch you produced, so a second volume picks up at 001248 instead of doubling back to one. A page range stamps only the sheets that are going out.
Bottom Right, Where Reviewers Look
The stamp defaults to the bottom right corner at twelve point black, the usual convention for discovery and e-filing, and the nine-point grid moves it when local rules or an existing footer say otherwise.
Stamped In Your Browser
Numbering runs in your browser rather than on a conversion server, so there is no queue to wait in, and any file you upload is deleted automatically after two hours.
Free, With No Signup
No account, no trial and no logo of ours on the page. The numbers are written into the PDF you download, so they hold up through printing, copying and whatever the other side opens the file in.
