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Ivo16E5
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May 25, 2022
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Count Pages in Directorys and Files

  • May 25, 2022
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Hello,

with an older version of Adobe Acrobat we could count pages of files in a bunch of directorys. We need this to know what our costumers have to pay for our work.

Is there a script for Acrobat DC to make the same work than before?

 

Thank you

Ivo

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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May 25, 2022

You can do it using a simple script in an Action. Do you want to total all the pages of all the files in the folder, or to print out the number of pages in each file?

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Ivo16E5Author
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May 25, 2022

I need the total of all pages in one directory or "many" directorys within one specific place.

Filedirectorys (specific place)
- filedirectory1

- filedirectory2

....

 That would be great to have (maybe to know how its done)

Thx so far

try67
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try67Community Expert
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May 25, 2022

Go to Tools - Action Wizard and create an Action with a command to execute the following JS code:

 

if (global.pagesCounter==null) global.pagesCounter=0;

global.pagesCounter+=this.numPages;

 

Save it as "Count Pages".

Now create a Custom Command with this code:

 

if (global.pagesCounter==null) app.alert("You must first run the \"Count Pages\" Action.");

else {app.alert("Number of pages counted: " + global.pagesCounter,3); delete global.pagesCounter;}

 

Run the Action on your files/folder (if you select a folder it will automatically process all the sub-folders underneath it, too, but will also convert all non-PDFs to PDF files, so be careful!), and then click the Custom Command to display the results.

    Bernd Alheit
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    Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
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    May 25, 2022

    What have you used in the old version of Adobe Acrobat Pro?

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    Ivo16E5Author
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    May 25, 2022

    it was named "count pages" - a java script. It was in tools when it was opened once in acrobat (X, Pro whatever). You could choose directorys from the server or where ever. It counted through and showed number of files and number of pages.

    Bernd Alheit
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    Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 25, 2022

    You can use this sequence in Adobe Acrobat DC Pro.

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