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Bates Numbering 101: History, Usage and Tutorial

Bates Numbering 101

A Brief History

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

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 “stamped” with  Able2Extract.

Definition & Usage

Bates Numbering, also known as Bates Stamping, 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.  

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How to Use a Pivot Table in Excel

How to use Excel Pivot Tables

Typical MS Excel spreadsheet data appears in form of a table which consists of multiple columns and rows. Such tables can have millions of data cells, finding any significant meaning in them can be a Sisyphean task. If your daily job requires you to analyze and summarize key business metrics from huge data sets, information overload is inevitable.

How do you work around that? The most effective way is to use Excel Pivot Tables – a summarizing tool that can greatly simplify the process of refining your data and display results in a succinct and clear way.

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Create and Fill Interactive PDF Forms with Able2Extract

Interactive PDF Forms

Small businesses, large corporations, educational and government institutions – they all use fillable forms to gather information that is essential for providing various services. Paperwork is here to stay, but there are a lot of downsides to it such as printing and archiving costs, as well as time and effort spent on manually filling those non-interactive forms.

Furthermore, many professionals rely heavily on data to make important decisions. Analyzing that data properly requires a specific set of skills, tools, and experience, but the first step in the process is collecting it. And on a large scale, forms are the most efficient way of obtaining data.

So, how can these important processes be improved and simplified?

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Essential Tips for Writing a Business Plan in Word

Writing Business Plan Tips

Writing a business plan is no easy task by any means. To make your idea work, you need to plan deep and in detail. And if you don’t, chances are that nuances will be overwhelming for a business still getting off the ground.

Learning from the best startup company examples, these are must-haves in order to stand a chance in a highly competitive environment:

  • A great idea
  • A talented and hard-working team
  • Financial support

After you do endless brainstorming sessions and meticulous research, that “eureka” moment will hopefully strike and it will seem like the hard part is over. However, it’s obvious that without a well thought–out and designed business plan, your brilliant idea won’t attract a lot of talent and money – something your success depends on. That’s when you should look to digital tools that can save you a lot of trouble and help you get the job done right.

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How to Extract Similar Data Fields from PDF Files

Extracting similar PDF data

Every single person that works with PDF files has probably come across a situation where they needed to extract certain information from PDF to MS Excel. Usually, this extraction process is a walk in the park. However, when you need to extract data that share similar features, the basic PDF to Excel conversion won’t cut it.

Surely, it will get the job done but still, you will need to manually go through numerous sheets to find the data important to you. And you’ll loop back at the beginning wasting precious time while combing through the pile of numbers.

That’s why we decided to introduce you to a timesaving hack that will allow you to stay on top of things while dealing with such tasks. Able2Extract goes beyond the capabilities of a regular PDF tool and enables you to extract only the relevant data fields from a PDF document.

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