Get number of pages in a pdf using a cmd batch file

Question

I can see there are a lot of questions for getting the number of pages in a a pdf with C, PHP and others but am wondering with a batch file or cmd is there a simple way of getti

Answer 1

Alternatively you can use the command, which returns only the number:

pdfinfo "${PDFFILE}" | grep Pages | sed 's/[^0-9]*//'

You will need the xpdf package (usually preinstalled in many distributions):

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html