Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· stephan

Count pages in PDF

If using Linux, this is much faster than using identify to get the page count (especially with a high number of pages):

exec('/usr/bin/pdfinfo '.$tmpfname.' | awk \'/Pages/ {print $2}\'', $output);

You do need pdfinfo installed.

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