How to count the numer of pdf pages in python that has blank pdf page also

Question

I have tried to print the count of pdf document which includes some blank white pdf page using pypdf module. But it avoids the blanks page and print the count of rest of pages. Below is the code.

import sys

import pyPdf

from pyPdf import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter

pdf_document = PdfFileReader(file(normalpdfpath,"r"))

normal = pdf_document.getNumPages()
print normal

Answer 1

step 1:-

pip install pyPDF2

step 2:-

import requests, PyPDF2, io
url = 'sample.pdf' 
response = requests.get(url)
with io.BytesIO(response.content) as open_pdf_file:
  read_pdf = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(open_pdf_file)
  num_pages = read_pdf.getNumPages()
  print(num_pages)

Answer 2

You may try this, which worked for me:

import re
import os

rxcountpages = re.compile(r"/Type\s*/Page([^s]|$)", re.MULTILINE|re.DOTALL)

def count_pages(filename):
    data = file(filename,"rb").read()
    return len(rxcountpages.findall(data))

if __name__=="__main__":
    parent = "/Users/username/"
    os.chdir(parent)
    filename = 'LaTeX20120726.pdf'
    print count_pages(filename)

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