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Technical Note Bates Numbering in PDF Documents Introduction C O N T E N T S Bates Numbering is a method of indexing legal documents for easy identification and retrieval. Acrobat 8.0 allows users to apply Bates Introduction 1 numbers to one document or to a whole set of documents, and they Bates Numbering in PDF 1 may apply more than one Bates Numbering sequence to a single or Locating Bates Numbers in PDF multiple documents. Document sets may also be given a unique set Documents 3 of numbers or prefixes which might include text such as a set number, case number, or firm name. Third-party software developers need to be able to extract the Bates Numbering information for document management purposes as well as to display the numbers to users. This document explains the methods for locating the Bates numbers and describes the syntax so the numbers can be extracted from PDF documents. Bates Numbering in PDF Previous versions of Acrobat allowed users to add headers and footers to a document to accommodate Bates Numbering, but there was no support for leading zeros, and it was not possible to number