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I unsuccessfully used the "pages" feature in Windows Explorer, as well as in Directory Opus 10 and Free Commander XT (which I installed just for that reason, to try it out) to display the page count of multiple PDFs in a folder.
All my PDF's are free to edit, i.e. not write-protected. I don't understand why any PDF reader can display the (correct) page number, but none of the file explorers can? (In the "details" view of course.)
The only documents whose page count is displayed are MS Word documents.
As you know for such information a Shell Extension Handler for PDF should be installed, but is there any?
On a side-note: Did that change in Windows 8?
Initial research: Google search was unsuccessful, the only slightly related SE topic I found was "How to count pages in multiple PDF files?".
Karan, sorry but you didn't read my question properly. Do you know how "file explorers" work? I did NOT ask about PDF readers, rather I wrote "any PDF reader can display the (correct) page number, but none of the file explorers can". I want to see the page count of MULTIPLE PDF files (that are unopened) under Windows - and then sort after the page volume - that is it. – grunwald2.0 – 2012-10-27T11:09:57.343
Well, I can only say that I have installed: Adobe Reader XI, Adobe Acrobat 9, Bluebeam Revu 10, Foxit 5.4.3, PDF Creator, PrimoPDF and Copernic Desktop Search Professional. (CDS also doesn't display the page count.) I think that answers your question. If the iFilters should be used by any of those programs, they sure should be installed. Lastly, you don't know if "iFilter" will expose the page count, but I can tell you that I checked the page count property with the config given above, that is the sole reason that I ask this question on SE. – grunwald2.0 – 2012-10-28T04:02:28.967
Chrome crashed and my answer is gone...I already had one app that did the job indirectly (reference management software that I had those PDF's put into) as well as "Rapid PDFCount". I am frank, I don't understand "iFilters", to me it seems they are deprecated or only of use for Microsoft Sharepoint (Server) products. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms691105(v=vs.85).aspx ; http://www.foxitsoftware.com/products/ifilter/feature.php)
– grunwald2.0 – 2012-10-28T06:01:09.413I read both, but I don't understand, sorry. IMHO it is not my job to figure out nerds (I mean the guys who built iFilter and the website) and technicalities. If you think iFilters are the solution, which file should I download? The plugin from Foxit costs $20, so Microsoft has an issue in their OS and now I should pay 50% of what an Windows 8 update costs to fix that? Again, I solved the problem already, but I at least want to understand what you try to sell me. – grunwald2.0 – 2012-10-29T03:05:18.587
1I am not trying to sell you anything. If you had read my comments carefully, I had said that while an iFilter most likely will fix this (only way I know of to expose the PDF content/properties to Windows Explorer/Indexer), I do not know which iFilter will fix it, or even whether any iFilters available can fix it. Presumably if you buy a license to a commercial iFilter, you can ask the developers to add the feature if it's missing. Beyond this I have no idea. – Karan – 2012-10-29T03:17:39.880