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 getting the number of pages?

Answer 1

Using pdftk:

pdftk my.pdf dump_data | grep NumberOfPages

does the trick.

Answer 2

Alternatively you can use the command, which returns only the number:

pdfinfo "${PDFFILE}" | grep Pages | sed 's/[^0-9]*//'

You will need the poppler package:

https://poppler.freedesktop.org/

Which can be installed using either homebrew / linuxbrew:

brew install poppler

or with apt:

sudo apt install poppler-utils