diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index ff07d18e8f..ae150bf4cc 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
   gunicorn:19.9.0, pyocr:0.5.2, python-dateutil:2.7.3
 - Remove use of django-compressor and cssmin now that the project used
   Whitenoise.
+- Display error when attempting to recalculate the page count of an empty
+  document (document stub that has no document version).
 
 3.0.1 (2018-07-08)
 =================
diff --git a/mayan/apps/documents/views/document_views.py b/mayan/apps/documents/views/document_views.py
index 60313eb94d..f2e7e6cbc9 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/documents/views/document_views.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/documents/views/document_views.py
@@ -596,9 +596,21 @@ class DocumentUpdatePageCountView(MultipleObjectConfirmActionView):
         return result
 
     def object_action(self, form, instance):
-        task_update_page_count.apply_async(
-            kwargs={'version_id': instance.latest_version.pk}
-        )
+        latest_version = instance.latest_version
+        if latest_version:
+            task_update_page_count.apply_async(
+                kwargs={'version_id': latest_version.pk}
+            )
+        else:
+            messages.error(
+                self.request, _(
+                    'Document "%(document)s" is empty. Upload at least one '
+                    'document version before attempting to detect the '
+                    'page count.'
+                ) % {
+                    'document': instance,
+                }
+            )
 
 
 class DocumentTransformationsClearView(MultipleObjectConfirmActionView):