When we introduced PDF-Counter as part of the major PDF Batch Utilities rebuild back in March, the app did exactly one thing: drop a folder onto it, and it would recursively scan every PDF it found and produce a CSV with two columns — file path and page count. Simple, focused, and useful.
Version 1.1.0, available now from Notation Central, builds on that foundation with a meaningful expansion of what the app can tell you, without complicating how you use it. (A 1.0.2 maintenance release in between addressed a bug where encrypted PDFs would return an error instead of a page count — that’s been fixed too.)
More data, your choice
The headline addition is a new Columns… button in the main window. Clicking it opens a dialog where you choose exactly which fields to include in the CSV output — up to ten in all.
The available options are: Page Count, Page Size (with a unit selector for inches, millimeters, or points), Mixed Size (flagging files where not all pages are the same dimensions), Created Date, Modified Date, File Size (KB), PDF Version, Title, Author, and Encrypted. Your selections are saved automatically between sessions.
For music preparers and orchestra librarians, the practical value here is considerable. A scan of your parts library can now tell you not just how many pages each file has, but what size they are — and whether any pages within a file are a different size, which can surface inconsistencies from file assembly or scanning. The file size column helps with storage estimates and send-out logistics. The encrypted flag quickly identifies files that might cause problems downstream in your workflow.
Of course, if all you want is page counts — which was the whole point when PDF-Counter launched — you can simply leave only that column checked and carry on exactly as before.
A tidier filename
The output file is also now named _PDFcount_<foldername>.csv rather than the generic _PDFcount.csv. It’s a small change, but when you’re scanning multiple projects across different folders, having the folder name baked into the filename means you always know at a glance which scan produced which file. It also works around an issue particular to Microsoft Excel, where you can’t have more than one file with the same name open at once.
Getting the update
PDF-Counter 1.1.0 is available now from Notation Central. Full documentation is here.
If you already have a Notation Central account, log in and find the updated version in your downloads — no new order needed. New users can find PDF-Counter in the Productivity category on a pay-what-you-wish basis, with a suggested contribution of $10.
