* OT: PDF word counts?
@ 2005-11-02 17:09 Adam Lindsay
2005-11-02 17:15 ` Patrick Gundlach
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From: Adam Lindsay @ 2005-11-02 17:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
Sorry for going a bit off-topic, but does anyone here know of good tools
for doing a word count directly on existing PDFs?
cheers,
adam
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* Re: OT: PDF word counts?
2005-11-02 17:09 OT: PDF word counts? Adam Lindsay
@ 2005-11-02 17:15 ` Patrick Gundlach
2005-11-02 22:32 ` Adam Lindsay
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From: Patrick Gundlach @ 2005-11-02 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi Adam,
> Sorry for going a bit off-topic, but does anyone here know of good tools
> for doing a word count directly on existing PDFs?
what about pdftotext from xpdf?:
/opt/xpdf/current/bin/pdftotext lettrine.pdf - | wc -w
1672
It's not that accurate, but perhaps it is sufficient?
Patrick
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* Re: Re: OT: PDF word counts?
2005-11-02 17:15 ` Patrick Gundlach
@ 2005-11-02 22:32 ` Adam Lindsay
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From: Adam Lindsay @ 2005-11-02 22:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
Patrick Gundlach said this at Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:15:10 +0100:
>what about pdftotext from xpdf?:
Perfect. That's certainly sufficient for my needs. I had never looked at
xpdf before because of the general level of PDF support on MacOSX, but
those associated tools look quite handy. The tools alone are compiled for Mac:
http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/xpdf-tools-3.dmg
Thanks,
adam
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