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

I found pdfminer very slow in getting total number of pages. Found this a cleaner and faster solution:

pip3 install PyPDF2

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader
def get_pdf_page_count(path):
  with open(path, 'rb') as fl:
    reader = PdfFileReader(fl)
    return reader.getNumPages()