From: "Patrick Gundlach" <patrick@gundla.ch>
Subject: Re: OT: PDF word counts?
Date: 2 Nov 2005 18:15:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2hdavug2p.fsf@levana.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051102170927.30074@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> (Adam Lindsay's message of "Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:09:27 +0100")
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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2005-11-02 17:09 Adam Lindsay
2005-11-02 17:15 ` Patrick Gundlach [this message]
2005-11-02 22:32 ` Adam Lindsay
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