Mr Justice Mann has issued the following guidance on PDF bundles today. It provides practical guidance as to the matters that should be included in bundles, including the need for optical recognition, the need for the documents to be in portrait and that no document should be upside down.
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Mr. Justice Mann has completely missed a very important option. Since Microsoft introduced the .docx format most PDF documents can be Saved in the docx format. I frequently pull down important documents in pdf format from the Internet and these could be e.g. 100 pages as pdf when they often take huge amounts of disk space where the size of the file is huge.
However once saved as Word files that huge size is dramatically reduced. The new file can be opened in Word and the size of the resulting word-file is a fraction and I mean a tiny fraction of the same file as a PDF document.
I am referring to documents which are all text without pictures but it often works with documents which have pictures Over the last 10 years or so Microsoft have improved their ability to grab PDF documents in this way and make sense of them. The new Word version of the same original pdf is of course fully searchable and pagination and page numbering is a breeze.
I had thought all Solicitors preparing bundles used Docx format. I would be keen to learn if that is in fact the case.