Best way to label PDFs?

This is a workflow and productivity question for Acrobat - Our organization keeps many PDF maps on our intranet, generated from engineering software. The documents don't have visible titles when viewed in the browser or when printed. What would be the most effective way of labeling these? There doesn't seem to be a way to do this when creating the PDF, except perhaps adding a watermark. I can open each map individually in Acrobat and add a comment or watermark.

Did you set the PDFs' metadata? For example, if you set the Title property it will show up as the title of the window when the file is opened (not sure if in a browser, though). Open the PDF in Acrobat, press Ctrl+D and have a look under the first tab.

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