pdf page count

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geroldboehler

pdf page count

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hi - is it possible to find out how many pages a pdf document has? - thanks - gerold
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geroldboehler

Re: pdf page count

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magick
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To return the number of pages in a PDF document, use this command:
  • identify -format %n image.pdf
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Re: pdf page count

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However this is probably very inefficent way. You are probably better of using a PDF tool that can extract the page count directly from the PDF file.
Anthony Thyssen -- Webmaster for ImageMagick Example Pages
https://imagemagick.org/Usage/
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geroldboehler

Re: pdf page count

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thanks for your help, i will give it a try.
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