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Count Pages in PDF Without Opening using Python REST API

In this short tutorial you will learn how to Python REST API‑basedly count pages in a PDF without ever opening the file, and how to automate the process for multiple PDFs in a folder. The example uses the Aspose.PDF Cloud SDK for Python to upload each document, retrieve its page list, and display the total count. For more details about the PDF format, see the PDF file info page.

Prerequisite

Steps for PDF Page Counter Software with Python REST Interface

  1. Initialise the PdfApi object with your client ID and client secret.
  2. Read the entire PDF file into a byte array (memory stream).
  3. Upload the PDF to Aspose Cloud storage using the UploadFile() method, providing the file name and byte stream.
  4. Invoke the GetPages() method for the uploaded file; it returns a DocumentPagesResponse object.
  5. Verify that the response status is successful and that the pages list is not null.
  6. Output the number of pages by checking the length of the pages list.

These steps illustrate how to build an online PDF page counter using the Python‑based API: load each PDF into memory, upload it, call GetPages(), and read the count from the response.

Code for Adobe PDF Page Counter with Python RESTful Service

The snippet demonstrates counting PDF pages in a folder by iterating over each file, uploading it, and reading the page count from the DocumentPagesResponse. You can further filter pages using properties exposed by the Page class. If the response status is not OK or the pages list is null, simply skip that file.

For a related example, see the article Count words in PDF document with Python REST API.

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