how to calculate count of no.of pages in pdf file-batch file

[npocmaka_]

damn....
Shall check for other way to count the pages.

[foxidrive]

The PDf was Created by QuarkXPress(R) 9.3

Maybe it's non-standard.

[sivasriram]

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@echo off
cls

set /p "file_name=File name: "
findstr /R /C:"/Type\s*/Page[^s]" "%file_name%"|find /c /v ""

the code was not working here

it is running fine, but output is not at all appearing...

Oh yeah, you wanted it output to a file, didn't you? Sorry about that...

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@echo off
cls

set /p "file_name=File name: "
echo|set /p=%file_name%,>>pdf_num.csv
findstr /R /C:"/Type\s*/Page[^s]" "%file_name%"|find /c /v "">>pdf_num.csv

the above mentioned code is working fine but the csv file is generating count = 0

i m just replaing file name=22.pdf in the code.

am i doing correct please guide me


here is what m doing


set /p "22=22: "
22: echo|set /p=%file_name%,>>pdf_num.csv
findstr /R /C:"/Type\s*/Page[^s]" "%22.pdf%"|find /c /v "">>pdf_num.txt
FINDSTR: Cannot open %22.pdf%

[ShadowThief]

You just went through the code and replaced every instance of the string "file name" or "file_name" with 22.pdf, of course it's not going to work; you broke the code!

What the original code did was ask the user to type in the name of the file to get the page numbers for. You would have had to enter something like C:\Users\Joe\Documents\report.pdf.

if you want to store the file name in the code, you'd need something like

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@echo off
cls

set file_name=22.pdf
echo|set /p=%file_name%,>>pdf_num.csv
findstr /R /C:"/Type\s*/Page[^s]" "%file_name%"|find /c /v "">>pdf_num.csv

[npocmaka_]

The PDf was Created by QuarkXPress(R) 9.3

Maybe it's non-standard.

rather images are counted for pages where there are no pages.

I suppose the string "/Image/Type" or "/type/image" can be found around 44 times?

[sivasriram]

You just went through the code and replaced every instance of the string "file name" or "file_name" with 22.pdf, of course it's not going to work; you broke the code!

What the original code did was ask the user to type in the name of the file to get the page numbers for. You would have had to enter something like C:\Users\Joe\Documents\report.pdf.

if you want to store the file name in the code, you'd need something like

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@echo off
cls

set file_name=22.pdf
echo|set /p=%file_name%,>>pdf_num.csv
findstr /R /C:"/Type\s*/Page[^s]" "%file_name%"|find /c /v "">>pdf_num.csv

this is what i tried mate


@echo off
cls

cd desktop\12

set file_name=22.pdf
echo|set /p=%file_name%,>>pdf_num.txt
findstr /R /C:"/Type\s*/Page[^s]" "%file_name%"|find /c /v "">>pdf_num.txt

and output is something like this


22.pdf, 0

the pdf contains 14 pages but count i m getting is 0 ?

plz help

[ShadowThief]

You will have to put the full path of the file if the batch file and the pdf aren't in the same folder.

[foxidrive]

rather images are counted for pages where there are no pages.

I suppose the string "/Image/Type" or "/type/image" can be found around 44 times?

Yes, it has "/Image/Type/" 44 times, I think.

[sivasriram]

You will have to put the full path of the file if the batch file and the pdf aren't in the same folder.

hey shadow see man my folder 12 containsa pdf file named 22.pdf(which is in desktop) i m running code through command prompt if it worked i would do a batch file, but the output is printing 0 every time mate .

[ShadowThief]

You will have to put the full path of the file if the batch file and the pdf aren't in the same folder.

hey shadow see man my folder 12 containsa pdf file named 22.pdf(which is in desktop) i m running code through command prompt if it worked i would do a batch file, but the output is printing 0 every time mate .

And when you run the script and it asks for a file are you entering C:\Users\<whatever_your_username_is>\Desktop\12\22.pdf ?

[foxidrive]

And when you run the script

It does return 0 for several files and the number for some others.

[sivasriram]

You will have to put the full path of the file if the batch file and the pdf aren't in the same folder.

hey shadow see man my folder 12 containsa pdf file named 22.pdf(which is in desktop) i m running code through command prompt if it worked i would do a batch file, but the output is printing 0 every time mate .

And when you run the script and it asks for a file are you entering C:\Users\<whatever_your_username_is>\Desktop\12\22.pdf ?

this is what i tried now


@echo off
cls
set file_name=C:\Documents and Settings\Prudhvi\Desktop\12\22.pdf
echo|set /p=%file_name%,>>pdf_num.txt



findstr /R /C:"/Type\s*/Page[^s]" "%file_name%"|find /c /v "">>pdf_num.txt



echo|set /p=%file_name%,>>pdf_num.txt

no output nothing this time , even txt file not created in this case

[Squashman]

Seems to work for me.

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C:\BatchFiles\PDFCount>dir /a-d /b
pdfcount.bat
ThreePageTest.pdf

C:\BatchFiles\PDFCount>pdfcount.bat
File name: ThreePageTest.pdf

C:\BatchFiles\PDFCount>dir /a-d /b
pdfcount.bat
pdf_num.csv
ThreePageTest.pdf

C:\BatchFiles\PDFCount>type pdf_num.csv
ThreePageTest.pdf, 3

C:\BatchFiles\PDFCount>

[ShadowThief]

no output nothing this time , even txt file not created in this case

Try this. If the path has spaces in it, the whole thing needs to be surrounded by double quotes.

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@echo off
cls
set file_name="C:\Documents and Settings\Prudhvi\Desktop\12\22.pdf"
echo|set /p=%file_name%,>>pdf_num.txt
findstr /R /C:"/Type\s*/Page[^s]" "%file_name%"|find /c /v "">>pdf_num.txt

[Squashman]

list of pdf files

That is some interesting reading material.