How to Count the Number of Pages in a PDF Using PyMuPDF

Once you have opened a PDF with PyMuPDF, you can easily find out how many pages it contains.

1. Using page_count

The page_count property returns the total number of pages in the PDF.

Here, the number of pages is stored in the variable page_number, and print() displays it.

For example, if the PDF contains 44 pages, the output will be:

44

2. Using len()

You can also use Python's built-in len() function:

len(doc)

This returns the total number of pages in the PDF as well.

For example:

Example Output:

44

Key takeaway

Both approaches give you the number of pages:

doc.page_count

or

len(doc)

Complete Example

Open the notebook

Open the Google Colab notebook for this PDF mini-guide and run the code as you follow along.

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