PDF Page Count

[Liux43]

I'm looking to find the number of pages within a PDF file. I've tried 3 methods, found in various forums, which get stuck at some stage in the code. In all methods I'd like to open the PDF file as .txt and search for the string /pages. A couple characters/positions after this string contains the number of pages. See below:

Opening the PDF in binary code does not contain the same text/information as a .txt. Is there a way to use 'Open' function to a .txt file?

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The next method was to open the file shell command. I can open the PDF as .txt however not aware of a method to activate that file and extract the data I

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Finally I want to use the 'Name' function to rename the PDF .txt, open the new file and extract that way. However, in doing so I get an "invalid procedure" at the 'Name' function line.

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Similarly I could copy or convert the pdf file to a .txt since I still want to maintain the original pdf file.

Am I on the right path with any of these?

[karedog]

UDF :

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Example usage :

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