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 -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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 -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net
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 -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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