A Standard Legal Process Shouldn't Require Paid Software
Bates numbering is a well-established, mechanical process — stamp a sequential identifier onto every page of a document set, in order. Many legal software suites bundle this behind an expensive, feature-heavy license built for far more than just numbering. A free, browser-based tool that does exactly this one task well is often all a smaller practice or an individual case actually needs.
What You Get for Free
- No account needed: upload your PDFs and stamp them — nothing to register first.
- Batch processing: number one document or an entire production set in a single pass, with sequencing continuing correctly across multiple files.
- Custom prefix and formatting to match your firm's or case's numbering convention.
- No per-page or per-document fees limiting how much you can process.
Who This Is For
Solo practitioners and small firms without a full litigation support platform, paralegals preparing a document production on a tighter budget, or anyone who needs to Bates-stamp a set of PDFs without justifying an enterprise software purchase for occasional use — a free tool covers this directly. For very high-volume, ongoing discovery work integrated into a case management system, a dedicated litigation support platform may still make sense — but for standalone Bates stamping, this is the right amount of tool.
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