Count the pages in a stack of PDFs.

Your files stay on your device

The counting happens in this page, using your browser’s own processing. Nothing is sent to a server, nothing is stored, and there is no account to create. Closing the tab is all the cleanup there is.

How to use it

1. Drop in the PDFs you want to count, or choose them from your device. You can select a whole folder’s worth at once.
2. Counting starts immediately — there is no button to press. Each file’s count appears as it is read, so a large stack shows its progress.
3. Read the total underneath, and use Copy the list if you need the counts in a spreadsheet or an email.

You can count up to 100 files at a time, each up to 50 MB. Choosing more files later adds them to the list rather than replacing it, and anything already counted is left alone.

A file that cannot be read says so, in its own row

If one document is password-protected or damaged, it is shown as a failed row beside the others and the rest of the stack is still counted. The total then says how many files it covers and how many it does not, because a total that quietly leaves two documents out is worse than no total at all — there is nothing to check it against.

Why the total is often the number you want

Print shops, courts, translators and copy bureaux usually quote by the page, not by the file, so the figure that matters is the one across the whole batch. Working it out by opening thirty documents and writing the numbers down is where the mistakes come from. Copy the list gives you one line per file, the name and the count separated by a tab, so it pastes into a spreadsheet as two columns.

What this tool does not change

Nothing is modified. The counter opens each document to read its page count and nothing else — your files are left exactly as they were, and no copy of them exists anywhere afterwards.

Related tools

Split PDF separates a document by page range, and Merge PDF combines several into one. Both are on the free tools page.