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traeregan on 11/10/09


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Count The Number of Pages in a PDF

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  1. METHOD 1
  2. ImageMagick: identify -density 12 -format "%p" image.pdf
  3.  
  4. METHOD 2
  5. FPDI (when setting the source file you get back the page count):
  6. http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/demos/thumbnails/
  7.  
  8. METHOD 3
  9. Open the pdf as a text file and count the number of times "/Page" occurs.
  10. function count_pages($pdfname) {
  11.   $pdftext = file_get_contents($pdfname);
  12.   $num = preg_match_all("/\/Page\W/", $pdftext, $dummy);
  13.   return $num;
  14. }

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Posted By: fugue on November 10, 2009

If you're using Linux, you can also try pdfinfo:

pdfinfo myfile.pdf | awk '/Pages/ {print $2}'

Using pdfinfo gives you access to a lot of information on the document.

Posted By: traeregan on November 15, 2009

Thank you, fugue, that ended up being what I went with. Much appreciated!

Posted By: adrianbj on February 20, 2010

Does anyone know how to duplicate "http://ian.umces.edu/pdfs/ianpresentation20091124145318.pdf" using PHP's imagick?

Posted By: adrianbj on February 20, 2010

Nevermind - it is: getNumberImages()

Posted By: adrianbj on February 21, 2010

Oh, and in case someone using imagemagick at the command is confused by the output of identify -density 12 -format "%p" image.pdf, try identify -format "%n" image.pdf

Posted By: adrianbj on February 21, 2010

Finally, sorry for the weird post with that url - I meant to write "identify -density 12 -format "%p" image.pdf" - I guess I pasted the wrong contents from my clipboard

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