diff --git a/config/aws/lambda/template_params.yaml b/config/aws/lambda/template_params.yaml
index 8e03318d..8c6041d3 100644
--- a/config/aws/lambda/template_params.yaml
+++ b/config/aws/lambda/template_params.yaml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Globals:
         SIDEKICK_PREPROCESS_TOPIC: "{{resolve:ssm:/dc/{$ENV$}/lambdas/sidekick_preprocess/topic:latest}}"
         RETRY_ERROR_TOPIC: "{{resolve:ssm:/dc/{$ENV$}/lambdas/retry_errors/topic:latest}}"
         PDF_SIZE_LIMIT: "{{resolve:ssm:/dc/{$ENV$}/params/pdf_size_limit:latest}}"
+        PAGE_COUNT_LIMIT: "{{resolve:ssm:/dc/{$ENV$}/params/page_count_limit:latest}}"
         BLOCK_SIZE: "{{resolve:ssm:/dc/{$ENV$}/params/block_size:latest}}"
         IMPORT_DIR: "{{resolve:ssm:/dc/{$ENV$}/lambdas/config/import_dir:latest}}"
         IMPORT_BUCKET: "{{resolve:ssm:/dc/{$ENV$}/lambdas/config/import_bucket:latest}}"
diff --git a/documentcloud/documents/processing/info_and_image/main.py b/documentcloud/documents/processing/info_and_image/main.py
index 6290b426..3e9afd1e 100755
--- a/documentcloud/documents/processing/info_and_image/main.py
+++ b/documentcloud/documents/processing/info_and_image/main.py
@@ -91,7 +91,12 @@
 TEXT_POSITION_BATCH = env.int(
     "TEXT_POSITION_BATCH", 3
 )  # Number of pages to pull text positions from with each function
+
+# PDF upload size limit is 500MB
 PDF_SIZE_LIMIT = env.int("PDF_SIZE_LIMIT", 501 * 1024 * 1024)
+# PDF page count limit, default 2000
+PAGE_COUNT_LIMIT = env.int("PAGE_COUNT_LIMIT", 2000)
+
 BLOCK_SIZE = env.int(
     "BLOCK_SIZE", 8 * 1024 * 1024
 )  # Block size to use for reading chunks of the PDF
@@ -170,6 +175,10 @@ class PdfSizeError(Exception):
     pass
 
 
+class PageCountError(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
 def initialize_redis_page_data(doc_id, page_count):
     """Initialize Redis fields to manage page dimensions and processing"""
     dimensions_field = redis_fields.dimensions(doc_id)
@@ -710,7 +719,13 @@ def process_pdf(data, _context=None):
     if storage.size(doc_path) > PDF_SIZE_LIMIT:
         # If not, remove the PDF
         storage.delete(path.path(doc_id))
-        raise PdfSizeError()
+        # Display 500MB instead of 501MB so -1
+        raise PdfSizeError(
+            f"This document is larger than the "
+            f"{(PDF_SIZE_LIMIT // (1024 * 1024)) - 1}MB limit. "
+            f"Please either compress or split the PDF to conform"
+            f" to the limit."
+        )
 
     # files are always uploaded to S3 as private, set to public on S3
     # if uploaded publicly to DocumentCloud
@@ -719,6 +734,19 @@ def process_pdf(data, _context=None):
 
     # Extract the page count and store it in Redis
     page_count = extract_pagecount(doc_id, slug)
+
+    # Ensure page count is within the limit
+    if page_count > PAGE_COUNT_LIMIT:
+        # If it is beyond the limit
+        # delete it from storage
+        # and raise PageCountError
+        storage.delete(path.path(doc_id))
+        raise PageCountError(
+            f"This document has {page_count} pages, which exceeds the "
+            f"{PAGE_COUNT_LIMIT}-page limit. "
+            f"Please split the PDF before upload."
+        )
+
     initialize_redis_page_data(doc_id, page_count)
 
     # Update the model with the page count