How to get the number of pages in a Word Document on linux?

Question

I saw this question PHP - Get number of pages in a Word document . I also need to determine the pages count from given word file (doc/docx). I tried to investigate phplivedo

Answer 1

To get meta data properties of doc,docx,ppt and pptx like number of pages, number of slides using PHP i followed the following process and it worked liked charm and iam so happy, below is the process i followed , hope it helps someone

Download and configure Apache Tika.

once its done you could try executing the following commadn it will give all the meta data about your file

java -jar tika-app-1.5.jar -m test.docx
java -jar tika-app-1.5.jar -m test.doc
java -jar tika-app-1.5.jar -m test.pptx
java -jar tika-app-1.5.jar -m test.ppt

once tested you can execute this comman in PHP script. Thanks.