Count pages in PDF file using Imagemagick - PHP

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Alfred picture Alfred · Sep 18, 2011 · Viewed 12.8k times · Source

I am using PHP 5 with Apache in my Windows Vista PC. I have Imagemagick already installed and configured. I want to count the total number of pages in a pdf file using imagick.

I fount one solution here, but dont know how to open pdf file as text and count pages.

somebody give me a clear solution to count pages using imagemagick like

identify -format %n testfile.pdf

From googling, I found some workarounds or examples;

  1. imagick(identify -format %n testfile.pdf)
  2. identify -density 12 -format "%p" testfile.pdf
  3. identify -format %n testfile.pdf

I don't know how to make use of this stuff..

Answer

Kurt Pfeifle picture Kurt Pfeifle · Aug 13, 2012

Instead of using "identify -format %n $file"(which can turn out to be extremely slow for complex or for mult-page PDFs) you should rather use the right tool for the job, pdfinfo:

exec("pdfinfo $file | grep Pages: | awk '{print $2}'")

which is faster by several magnitudes...

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