Bates Numbering is
used in the legal, medical, and business fields to place identifying numbers and/or
date/time-marks on images and documents as they are scanned or processed, for example, during the discovery stageof preparations for trialor identifying business receipts. Bates
stamping can be used to mark and identify images with copyrights by putting a company name, logo and/or legal copyright on them. This process provides identification, protection, and automatic
consecutive numbering of the images.