'pkpgcounter' is a generic Page Description Language parser which is used by PyKota to analyze print jobs' datas and compute the number of pages in them.
It can also compute the percent of ink coverage needed to print several types of documents.

'pkpgcounter' is distributed and licensed under the terms of the "GNU General Public License":/GPL of the "Free Software Foundation":http://www.fsf.org

You can use 'pkpgcounter' without PyKota if you want, it is completely independant.

You can download 'pkpgcounter' from the official website : http://www.pykota.com/software/pkpgcounter/download

'pkpgcounter' currently recognizes the following Page Description Languages :

  - Postscript (both DSC compliant and binary)

  - PDF

  - PCLXL (aka PCL6)

  - PCL3/4/5

  - DVI

  - TIFF

  - ESC/P2

  - OpenDocument (ISO/IEC DIS 26300)

  - Zenographics ZjStream

The three latter ones, as well as some TIFF documents, are only supported in page counting mode for now.