Whether they are used to signify approval, document status such as "Confidential" or "Draft" or to apply corporate graphics, stamps are an important part of document workflows around the world. One such example is "Bates numbering", which is a system of incremental numeric stamps used in the legal sector to track hard copies of legal documents. How does this all translate into the digital world? Easily, thanks to PDF Stamps.

If you have been following developments from Adobe and third-party PDF developers over the last few years, you'll already know that they have all been hard at work ensuring that a purely electronic workflow is both feasible and very usable. For example, it's possible to apply not only standard graphical text stamps with Acrobat, but to create and use your own custom graphical stamps as well.

For more power and flexibility, you may want to try a specialized 3rd-party tool such as ARTS PDF Stamper or IntelliPDF BATES PRO. It's even possible to automate your stamping processes on a server or via hot folders using PDF Snake Server. Both ARTS PDF Stamper and IntelliPDF BATES PRO support the application of Bates numbering and -- perhaps most importantly -- all three products have freely available demonstration versions available from PDF Store.

For more options, please check out PDF Store's PDF Stamping aisle.

Until next week, happy stamping!