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miodeqqq/pdf_number_of_pages.py

Created September 10, 2019 12:55
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Retrieve number of pages from PDF using pdfminer
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pdf_number_of_pages.py
from pdfminer.pdfdocument import PDFDocument
from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser
from pdfminer.pdftypes import resolve1
with open('/path/to/file.pdf', 'rb') as f:
parser = PDFParser(f)
doc = PDFDocument(parser)
parser.set_document(doc)
pages = resolve1(doc.catalog['Pages')
pages_count = pages.get('Count', 0)
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