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Bates numbering is the legal industry's standard way of uniquely identifying every page of every document in a discovery production. Each page receives a sequential identifier such as SMITH_v_JONES_000001, making depositions, motions, and exhibits trivially referenceable. Our free Bates numbering tool stamps your PDFs in seconds — no upload caps, no watermarks, and no signup.

Upload one or more PDFs, choose a prefix, starting number, padding, position, font, size, and color, and we'll burn the labels into every page. Use "continuous" numbering to keep one running counter across an entire production, or "reset per file" if you label each document independently.

How to Use Our Bates Numbering Tool

1. Click "Upload PDF File(s)" and pick one or more PDFs.
2. Enter your prefix (e.g. SMITH_v_JONES_) and starting number.
3. Choose how many digits to pad to (6 produces 000001).
4. Pick a position, font, size, and color for the stamp.
5. Choose continuous numbering across files or reset per file.
6. Click "Add Bates Numbers" and download your stamped PDF or ZIP.

Why Use Bates Numbering?

• Legal discovery: Required for producing documents in litigation so opposing counsel and the court can reference any page unambiguously.
• Depositions and exhibits: Witnesses and judges can be pointed to an exact page by number.
• Audit trails: Sequential identifiers make it obvious if any page was added or removed after production.
• Cross-firm consistency: The prefix often encodes the matter and the producing party, so labels stay unique across the whole case.

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