How to count the number of pages of multiple PDF files?

Question

Microsoft

Actually the question is how in the windows environment to calculate the total number of pages of many pdf-files in a directory? Preferably without installing any software, or it should be portable ...

Answer 1

Either use the appropriate assembly to work with the pdf, or use the trickier .

Answer 2

You can take any open source PDF library and write the application yourself. It's not hard.

Answer 3

Here is a python solution compiled with py2exe into an exe file and does not require .net (uses pyPdf if you run the script itself). The first parameter is the path to the folder, and if it is not present, then it is considered that this is the current directory:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os
import sys
from pyPdf import PdfFileReader


PDF_EXTENSION = '.pdf'
DEFAULT_PATH = '.'

def pages_count(path):
    return PdfFileReader(file(path, "rb")).getNumPages()

if __name__=="__main__":
    path = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else DEFAULT_PATH
    total_pages_count = 0
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
        for file_name in files:
            if file_name[-len(PDF_EXTENSION):] == PDF_EXTENSION:
                file_path = os.path.join(root, file_name)
                file_pages_count = pages_count(file_path)
                print file_path, file_pages_count
                total_pages_count += file_pages_count
    print 'total:', total_pages_count