Counting Pages in PDF files

Created by Jeremy Burgess, Modified on Thu, 23 Feb, 2023 at 3:21 PM by Joel Marsh-Trim

Symptoms

When planning a task it can be usefult to know how many total pages you'll find in a collection of PDF files.

Cause

n/a

Resolution

The pdfinfo tools is a useful CLI utility to use with Windows/Powershell. Windows and Linux versions can be downloaded from: https://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html

Example use:

$folder = 'C:\Test'
$Total = $Files = 0

foreach($File in (Get-ChildItem -Path $Folder -Filter *.pdf)){
    $Pages = (pdfinfo $File.FullName | Select-String -Pattern '(?<=Pages:\s*)\d+').Matches.Value
    $Total += $Pages
    $Files++
    [PSCustomObject]@{
        PdfFile = $File.Name
        Pages   = $Pages
    }
}
"`nTotalNumber of pages: {0} in {1} files" -f $Total,$Files

And output:

PdfFile                      Pages
-------                      -----
2014-02-25_Allwinner A80.pdf 1
test.pdf                     4

TotalNumber of pages: 5 in 2 files

Source: https://superuser.com/questions/1446208/counting-total-number-of-pages-across-multiple-pdf-files-on-the-windows-powersh