I used scan to get total count of the required tableName.Following is a Java code snippet for same
Long totalItemCount = 0;
do{
ScanRequest req = new ScanRequest();
req.setTableName(tableName);
if(result != null){
req.setExclusiveStartKey(result.getLastEvaluatedKey());
}
result = client.scan(req);
totalItemCount += result.getItems().size();
} while(result.getLastEvaluatedKey() != null);
System.out.println("Result size: " + totalItemCount);