how to get the total number pages from a pdf file

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Hello All,

i am trying to fetch the total no.of pages from a pdf file in power automate desktop. so,is there any way to fetch it?

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Deenuji_Loganathan_ 6,250 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi

Please find the below example which provided in the Power automate desktop to get No. of pages in pdf file.

Code also attached below for your quicker reference:(Copy and paste into your power automate desktop designer):

# The custom form prompts users to select a PDF file to count its pages. @@statistics_TextBlock: '1' @@statistics_Input_File: '1' @@statistics_Action_Submit: '1' Display.ShowCustomDialog CardTemplateJson: '''{ \"type\": \"AdaptiveCard\", \"version\": \"1.4\", \"id\": \"AdaptiveCard\", \"body\": [ { \"type\": \"TextBlock\", \"id\": \"Text block\", \"size\": \"medium\", \"weight\": \"bolder\", \"text\": \"${Text_block_Text}\" }, { \"type\": \"Input.File\", \"id\": \"File input\", \"isRequired\": true, \"label\": \"${File_input_Label}\" } ], \"actions\": [ { \"type\": \"Action.Submit\", \"id\": \"Ok\", \"title\": \"${Ok_Title}\" } ] }''' CustomFormData=> CustomFormData ButtonPressed=> ButtonPressed @Text_block_Text: $'''Find the number of pages in PDF''' @File_input_Label: $'''Select a PDF file:''' @Ok_Title: $'''OK''' /# The 'If' action checks whether the user pressed the 'OK' button in the custom form. If yes, the main logic of the flow runs. #/ IF ButtonPressed = $'''Ok''' THEN # The following actions retrieve the file path of the selected file. The retrieved directory part of the path is used as a destination folder for the extracted temporary file. The 'Count' variable increases for each page in the PDF file. File.GetPathPart File: CustomFormData['File input'] RootPath=> RootPath Directory=> Directory FileName=> FileName FileNameWithoutExtension=> FileNameNoExtension Extension=> FileExtension SET Count TO 0 # The loop repeats until the 'Extract PDF file pages to new PDF file' action fails. When the action fails, the file doesn't have more pages. The 'Extract PDF file pages to new PDF file' action creates a temporary file for each page and the 'Delete file(s)' deletes it. LOOP WHILE ($'''True''') = ($'''True''') Pdf.ExtractPages PDFFile: CustomFormData['File input'] PageSelection: Count + 1 ExtractedPDFPath: $'''%Directory%\\Temp PDF from a desktop flow''' IfFileExists: Pdf.IfFileExists.AddSequentialSuffix ExtractedPDFFile=> ExtractedPDF ON ERROR PageOutOfBoundsError GOTO Finish END File.Delete Files: ExtractedPDF Variables.IncreaseVariable Value: Count IncrementValue: 1 END END LABEL Finish Display.ShowMessageDialog.ShowMessage Title: $'''Flow finished running...''' Message: $'''The selected PDF file has %Count% pages.''' Icon: Display.Icon.None Buttons: Display.Buttons.OK DefaultButton: Display.DefaultButton.Button1 IsTopMost: True ButtonPressed=> ButtonPressed2

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Deenu

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VishnuReddy1997 2,656 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hey Hi,

If the pages count is too high,it will be a time take process @deenuji has provided.

It will be faster and easiest process if you try with Python code and you can invoke the Python code as below shown in PAD.

Python Code :

Please save this python code as .py file.

import fitz # PyMuPDF import sys def count_pages(pdf_path): pdf_document = fitz.open(pdf_path) num_pages = pdf_document.page_count return num_pages if __name__ == "__main__": if len(sys.argv) != 2: print("Usage: python count_pages_pymupdf.py <pdf_path>") sys.exit(1) pdf_path = sys.argv[1] num_pages = count_pages(pdf_path) print(f"{num_pages}")

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Vishnu Reddy

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