diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 6d7e3ef..16804eb 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ o List images on a page with -list-images[-json]
 o Chop pages up into sections with -chop
 o Build PDF files from JBIG2 streams, including globals
 o Reprocess images within PDFs to further compress them
+o New -pages-fast to print number of pages from /Count 
 
 Extended features:
 
diff --git a/cpdfcommand.ml b/cpdfcommand.ml
index b857737..4587228 100644
--- a/cpdfcommand.ml
+++ b/cpdfcommand.ml
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ let rec decrypt_if_necessary (_, _, user_pw, owner_pw, was_dec_with_owner, _) op
 
 (* Output Page Count *)
 let output_page_count pdf =
-  Printf.printf "%i\n" (Pdfpage.endpage pdf)
+  Printf.printf "%i\n" ((if args.fast then Pdfpage.endpage_fast else Pdfpage.endpage) pdf)
 
 let detect_duplicate_op op =
   match args.op with
diff --git a/cpdfmanual.tex b/cpdfmanual.tex
index 3a5962e..f19c191 100644
--- a/cpdfmanual.tex
+++ b/cpdfmanual.tex
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 %Document -extract-images JBIG2 for how to use jbig2dec
 %Document -jbig2 / -jbig2globals
 %Document -process-images
+%Document -pages -fast
 \documentclass{book}
 % Edit here to produce cpdfmanual.pdf, cpdflibmanual.pdf, pycpdfmanual.pdf,
 % dotnetcpdflibmanual.pdf, jcpdflibmanual.pdf jscpdflibmanual.pdf etc.