How can I get the total count of total pages of a pdf using pdfminer in python

Question

In PyPDF2 pdfreader.getNumPages() gives me the total number of pages of a pdf file.

How can I get this using pdfminer?

Answer 1

Using pdfminer.six you just need to import the high level function extract_pages, convert the generator into a list and take its lenght.

from pdfminer.high_level import extract_pages

print(len(list(extract_pages(pdf_file))))