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Can anyone please help me providing script to get the number of pages in a PDF file?

man pdfinfo

Code:

PAGES=$( pdfinfo $FOLDER/$FILE | grep 'Pages' - | awk '{print $2}' )

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I�ve found the fpdi php class

Code:

 
<?php
require_once('fpdf16\fpdf.php');
require_once('fpdi13/fpdi.php');

$pdf =& new FPDI();
$pagecount = $pdf->setSourceFile('MyPDFDocument.pdf');
echo "Pagecount = ".$pagecount;

?>

This solves my Problem

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