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Hi, I've an ASP.NET web application  on which I need to get the word doc page count. Since I have many word documents to get the  page count, I don't want to use Word Application _object_ as it will consume a lot of resources on the server. Is there a possibility to get the page count by reading the word doc into a stream & by looking for page delimiters? Or is there a better way to get the page count without using word applications _object_s. Please help.....!

Hi, I've an ASP.NET web application  on which I need to get the word doc page count. Since I have many word documents to get the  page count, I don't want to use Word Application _object_ as it will consume a lot of resources on the server. Is there a possibility to get the page count by reading the word doc into a stream & by looking for page delimiters? Or is there a better way to get the page count without using word applications _object_s. Please help.....! You can use DSOFile.dll (version 2) to read document properties, including page count, from an Office 97-2003 format document without opening the document. It doesn't work with Office 2007 format documents, but you may be able to get something out of the _xml_ in that container. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DSOFile.htm. Also be aware that the page count of a Word document depends on the printer driver used to do the layout (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm), so what you get from DSOFile is only an approximation.