OT: PDF word counts?

OT: PDF word counts?

[Adam Lindsay]

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?

[Patrick Gundlach]

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?

[Adam Lindsay]

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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