Count the pages in one PDF or many at once, with a per-file table and a combined total. Fast, free, and built for simple browser-based workflows.
Choose one or more PDF files, then click Count Pages.
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PDF Page Counter is a free online tool that tells you how many pages a stack of PDFs contains. Pick one file or fifty, click Count Pages, and a table lists each document with its page count and size, followed by a single combined total for the whole selection.
It earns its keep when the question is about a pile rather than one document: a print shop pricing forty handouts by the sheet, a translator quoting a job by the page, a student checking that a thesis and its appendices come in under a submission limit, or an office confirming a batch of scans is complete before it goes to the archive. Opening each file in turn and adding the numbers up by hand is exactly where a miscount creeps in. Copy Summary puts the whole list, line by line, plus the total, straight into an email or a quote.
Every file is opened and counted by your own browser, and none of them is posted to this site - which matters when the pile is client contracts or exam papers rather than something you would happily email around. A file the browser cannot open, such as a download that was cut short or something that is not really a PDF, gets its own row saying so and the rest of the batch still counts. When the numbers tell you a document needs breaking up, the PDF Split tool does that, and PDF Metadata Viewer is the one to open when a single file's properties matter rather than its length. The counting library is fetched from a public CDN the first time you click Count Pages, so this page does need a connection.
Click Choose PDF Files and select one document or a whole folder of them. The picker takes many files at once, and everything you select is counted in the same run.
Click Count Pages. Each file is read in turn and appears as a row of File, Pages and Size, with a line saying how many of your files could be read.
The heading above the table gives the combined page count for the whole selection. Any file that could not be opened shows "Could not read (protected or damaged)" in its Pages column and is left out of that total.
Click Copy Summary to put the per-file list and the total on your clipboard as plain text, ready to paste into an email or a quote. Clear empties the table and the file box.
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Yes, and that is what this tool is built around. The file picker accepts as many PDFs as you like in one selection, each gets its own row of file name, page count and size, and the heading above the table adds them into one total for the whole batch.
It is exact. The page count is read from inside the document itself, the same number your PDF reader would show, so it does not vary with how heavy the file is. A one-page scan of 8 MB and a 300-page text PDF of 1 MB are both reported correctly.
Because the browser could not open that particular file. Usually it was truncated while downloading or it is not really a PDF despite its name; now and then a password-protected file keeps its page list encrypted and lands here too. It still gets a row, it is left out of the total, and every other file is counted normally.
Usually, yes. In most PDFs the page list sits outside the encrypted parts, so a protected file is counted like any other, whichever kind of password it has. If one still shows "Could not read (protected or damaged)", save an unlocked copy with the PDF Password Helper tool and count that copy.
Plain text, one line per file in the form "report.pdf: 14 pages", then a blank line and a closing total that names how many files were read. It pastes cleanly into an email, a quote or a spreadsheet cell without carrying any formatting with it.
There is no fixed limit. Files are read one after another rather than all at once, so a long list simply takes a little longer and a progress line keeps you informed. Several hundred ordinary documents are fine; very large scans are what slow an older phone down.
Because pages and sheets are not the same thing. This tool counts the pages in the document. A printer set to double-sided puts two pages on one sheet, and a booklet or two-up layout puts more, so a 40-page PDF can arrive as 20 sheets or fewer without anything being wrong.
Not here. This page reports the page count and file size only, because it is built for going through a stack quickly. To see the title, author, dates and producing software stored inside a document, open that one file in the PDF Metadata Viewer tool instead.