PDF tricks

This page list some hints related to processing of PDF files.

This one-liner does the trick using pdfinfo tool:

 for i in *.pdf; do pdfinfo $i | grep Pages ; do
 

To display file names along number of pages use this command:

 for i in *.pdf; do (s=`pdfinfo $i | grep Pages`; echo $s $i) ; done

To find the total number of pages one can use awk:

for i in *.pdf; do pdfinfo $i | grep Pages ; done | awk 'BEGIN {s=0} {s=s+$2} END {print s}'