Get number of pages in a pdf using a cmd batch file

Question

I can see there are a lot of questions for getting the number of pages in a a pdf with C, PHP and others but am wondering with a batch file or cmd is there a simple way of getti

Answer 1

QPDF is a lightweight alternative to PDFtk (requiring Java runtime) and pdfinfo (quite a dumb tool).

qpdf --show-npages file.pdf

It prints just the number of pages, needing no post-processing.

Packages for most Linux distributions exist, usually named just qpdf. Pages like Softpedia host binaries for Windows. The source code can be downloaded from SourceForge, or from the official GitHub repository.

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The --show-npages option was added in a version after 4.1.0, in commit 91367239fd55f7c4996ed6158405ea10573ae3cb. To be compatible with version 4.1.0 and earlier, you can dump basic information about each page and count the pages. In Linux and OS X:

qpdf --show-pages file.pdf | grep -c ^page

On Windows, you should use findstr and find instead:

qpdf --show-pages file.pdf | findstr ^page | find /c /v ""