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 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