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Python 3 PyPDF2 Script to Count the Pages inside PDF Document & Display it in Terminal
Jun 3, 2025
Get the full source code of application here:
https://codingshiksha.com/python/python-3-pypdf2-script-to-count-the-pages-inside-pdf-document-display-it-in-terminal/
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you how to
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count the total number of pages inside a
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PDF document inside this Python script
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for this we are using this library py
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PDF2 which is a PDF processing library
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inside Python open source so here you
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simply provide the file name we are
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passing this file name as you can see
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merged PDF it has got a total of 28
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pages so if I try to execute this Python
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script it will basically count the total
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number of pages and it will give the
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total number of pages is
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28 so in this easy way you can do this
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so first of all you just need to install
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this package so py pdf2 so simply search
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for this
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package so the command is simple you
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simply install this package after
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installing it
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uh just create a simple app py file and
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first of all you just need to import
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this
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module like this py pdf2 after that you
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simply open the input file where you
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working with so merged
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PDF we will read this file in read
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binary mode
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flag as file and then we will read
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this and it contains a method right here
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which is called as
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PDF reader this is the method and here
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we simply pass the PDF file and once it
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contains a property here which is called
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as length and right here you will pass
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this PDF reader and it contains a
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property called as pages so then it will
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return the total number of pages which
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are present inside this uh so here we
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can simply print that total pages
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so it will print out this value that's
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all that we need to do very simple we
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simply import the module then we pass it
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open this file then we read this and
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then it returns this pages property so
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if you run this again you will see total
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number of pages is 28 you can change
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this let's suppose I provide a different
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file this one contains two pages
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so you can see that so this is the easy
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way by which inside Python you can count
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the total number of pages inside pi uh
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