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Bates Numbering PDF – Bates Stamp Files Free

Bates stamp multiple PDF files at once with custom prefix, suffix and starting number. Built for legal and discovery work.

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Private and short-lived: every upload is erased automatically 72 hours after you last open it.

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Apply Bates Numbering: step by step

Bates stamp multiple PDF files at once with custom prefix, suffix and starting number. Built for legal and discovery work.

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    Upload your PDF

    Drop in a document and the first page appears with the stamp drawn across its top — “Exhibit 1 Case XYZ 000001”, live on the sheet. Files are deleted after 2 hours.

    The top of a page in the preview with “Exhibit 1 Case XYZ 000001” stamped in the header
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    Pick a style, or build one

    The style list covers the classics — Exhibit marks, case numbers, or bare padded numbers running 1 to 6 digits. Prefer your own? The Customize Style composer mixes fixed text with the live counters: file number, bates number, and the page for the “and page” styles. Preview lists the whole run — File 1, Page 1 right through File 10, Page 1 — and updates as you type.

    1 Select Style showing “Exhibit 1 Case XYZ 000001”, the 2 Customize Style composer with the Exhibit / file-counter / Case XYZ / 000001 segments, and the Preview lines File 1 Page 1 through File 10 Page 1
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    Place it, continue the count, stamp

    Location on Page puts the stamp in any of the six header or footer slots, and the Continue-from pair opens the sequence and the file counter wherever this run picks up — the ? bubbles explain both. Behind More options: font, size up to 60, colour, and custom result names.

    Location on Page set to Header center, Numbering (Continue from) with Bates sequence and Files counter both starting at 1, Document Margins and the backup note

    Press Bates stamp and the document comes back stamped, page after page counting on.

    More options open: the Font row with Times New Roman and size 10, a colour swatch, Customize result names prefixed bates_stamped_, and the Bates stamp button beside Fewer options
  • Ready-made styles

    Exhibit marks, case numbers or bare padded numbers — 1 to 6 digits.

  • Build your own

    The composer mixes fixed text with the file, bates and page counters.

  • Continue from anywhere

    Bates sequence and file counter both take a starting number.

  • Room to spare

    Increase margins scales the page content down so the stamp never sits on your text.

  • Font to colour

    Times or Helvetica, sizes 6 to 60, in any colour — tucked into More options.

  • Private by default

    No account, no watermark — and every file is automatically deleted after 2 hours.

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Header & Footer

Adds one line of text to a header or footer position on every page, with tokens such as [PAGE_ARABIC], [PAGE_ROMAN] and [TOTAL_PAGES] so the same line numbers itself per page.

Deskew

Straightens tilted scans, page by page, either by measuring the skew or applying an angle you supply. Straight pages make OCR sharper and printed copies square.

Watermark

Stamps a text or image watermark on the pages you name, with the position, font, size, colour, angle and opacity you choose. The tiled option repeats the mark across the page for a do-not-copy background.

Remove Annotations

Removes highlights, underlines, strike-outs, comments, stamps and other annotations in one pass — the clean-up step after a review round.

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