Bindery then builds the bundle on your device. The index comes first and is numbered with the rest, and each entry is a live link to its document’s first page. Every page gets its bundle number in the bottom-right margin — “Page 1 of 240”, or a prefix such as A1 — and every document a bookmark with its range, such as “Witness statement of J. Smith (pp. 12–30)”. Pages without text are given searchable text while today’s OCR allowance covers them (free plan: 5 pages a day; Pro: no limit); pages beyond it are listed so you can run OCR on them. Page images above 300 dpi are reported, the file is set to open on page 1 at 100% with the bookmarks showing, in viewers that follow a PDF’s opening settings, and its size is compared with the limit you pick. Leak Check’s byte-level checks run on the file you download, and what they find is reported before you download it. The bundle is set up the way court e-bundle guidance usually asks; check your court’s practice direction, because Bindery does not know your court’s rules and cannot promise acceptance. Nothing is uploaded.
How it works
- Open Application pack — the court checklist and Court bundle are chosen — and drop the documents
- Check where each file landed, order the files within each document, and add any document the checklist lacks by typing its name
- Pick the page-number style and the size limit, build the bundle, read the checks and download it
Questions people ask
Will my court accept the bundle?
Bindery cannot promise that, and does not. The bundle is set up the way court e-bundle guidance usually asks — the index first with live links, page numbers that match the PDF’s own, bookmarks with page ranges, searchable text and a size check — but courts differ on details such as the page-number style, the order of sections and the largest file they take. Check your court’s practice direction and set what it asks for: the prefix, the size limit, the documents and their names. Documents follow the checklist’s order, then any you add; Bindery cannot yet move a whole document to another place in the bundle.
How are the pages numbered?
Every page, the index included, gets its bundle number in the bottom-right margin, counting from 1 on the index’s first page — “Page 1 of 240”, or with a prefix such as A, “A1” — so in a single-file bundle the number stamped on each page is the page number your PDF viewer shows; split into volumes, the numbering runs on, so volume 2 starts where volume 1 stopped. The index and the bookmarks quote the same numbers, prefix included, such as A12–A30. The number is drawn as real text over the page, so where a page’s own content runs into that corner the two can overlap; look through the bundle before you file it.
What if the bundle is over the size limit?
Pick the limit before you build: a 36 MB preset (a common UK court email limit), a 35 MB per-file preset (CM/ECF limits differ by court) or your own figure. The finished bundle is measured as it will download, and when it is over, “Split into volumes” cuts it with Split under a size: the numbering runs on from one volume to the next, and each volume opens with an index of the documents it holds, linked to their first pages. A single page that is over the limit on its own cannot be divided, and the result says so. Reducing heavy pictures first can save a split: the image check lists the pages above 300 dpi.
Does the free plan cover a whole bundle?
A bundle is one of your 3 free jobs a day, however many documents it holds. Files can be up to 25 MB each, pages without text count toward the 5 free OCR pages a day — pages beyond them are listed so you can run OCR on them — and free PDFs carry a small “Made with Bindery” line along the foot of every page. Pro removes the line and the caps. Everything runs in your browser tab; nothing is uploaded.