CAM::PDF has a numPages() method.

Martin

sub pdf_pagecount {
   scalar @_ or confess('missing arg');

   my $count=0;

   require PDF::API2;
   require Carp;

   PDFILE : while( my $abs = shift @_){
         -f $abs or Carp::cluck("!-f $abs") and return 0;

         my $p = PDF::API2->open($abs) or die;
         my $_count;
         unless( $_count = $p->pages ){
            Carp::cluck("doc $abs had no pagecount?");
            next PDFILE;
         }
         $count= ($count + $_count);
   }

   return $count;
}

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Arg is abs path to pdf tests for existance returns count of pages. Arg can be list, checks each and warns and returns false on errors.

my $pagecount= pdf_pagecount(’/my/abs/file.pdf’);
my $total_pagecount= pdf_pagecount( '/my/abs/file.pdf’,  ’/my/abs/file
+2.pdf’,);
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