{"id":7829,"date":"2018-01-15T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/?p=7829"},"modified":"2019-12-04T10:46:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T10:46:16","slug":"bates-numbering-101-history-usage-and-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/archives\/7829-bates-numbering-101-history-usage-and-tutorial.html","title":{"rendered":"Bates Numbering 101: History, Usage and Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Brief History<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Bates Numbering Machine (also known as the Bates Stamper) was invented in the late 19th century by <\/span>Edwin G. Bates<\/span><\/i>. Mr. Bates had one objective <\/span>in<\/span> mind – to simplify and increase the effectiveness of document identification and information retrieval. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in the old days, this was a manual process. Each page had to be hand stamped with the Bates Stamper in order to index the page with a four-digit sequence. Fortunately, with the transition from paper to electronic documents, this manual method was phased out. Now, thanks to the rise of technology, documents can be \u201cstamped\u201d with <\/span> Able2Extract<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Definition & Usage<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bates Numbering<\/span><\/a>, also known as <\/span>Bates Stamping<\/span><\/i>, 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.  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Bates Numbering is a feature that legal professionals welcome. After all, it\u2019s mainly used in the field of law. Needless to say, legal documents can contain thousands of pages and indexing those pages with Bates Numbers makes retrieving information out of them an effortless task. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By applying sequential numbering to PDF documents, you\u2019re making the task of organizing and identifying important documents a lot easier. For instance, a paralegal can instantly search the document and locate the page containing information a lawyer needs to reference during a deposition. It goes without saying that this is a huge time and money saver. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is accomplished by assigning specific identifiers (numeric or combination of letters and numbers) such as case ID numbers, dates or company names to each PDF 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. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that you know <\/span>some of the benefits of <\/span>digitally adding<\/span> Bates Numbers <\/span>to your documents<\/span>, it\u2019s time to show you how to <\/span>use<\/span> Able2Extract\u2019s Bates Numbering feature in the guide below.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Add Bates Numbering to a PDF<\/strong> <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Able2Extract has a good handful of <\/span>features for lawyers<\/span><\/a>, with Bates Numbering being the most prominent one. Here\u2019s how to apply Bates Numbers to your legal PDF documents and get the most out of the feature.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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