If a processing job hasn't started yet, what value displays under documents remaining?

When a processing job has not started yet, it is accurate for the system to display a value of -1 under documents remaining. This indicates that the job has not initiated any processing, so there isn't an actionable count of documents to report on at that moment. The choice of -1 signifies that the situation is beyond zero because it reflects an uninitiated state, rather than a progression towards completion.

In contrast, values like 0 would traditionally indicate that processing has either completed for the job or that there are no documents to process, which is not applicable here. N/A could imply that the information is not applicable or not to be provided, but -1 is more specific in denoting a job that has yet to begin. "Pending" could suggest that the job is waiting to start, but it lacks the precise numerical indication that -1 conveys about the status of document processing. Hence, -1 serves as a clear indicator that processing has not yet commenced.