[NTG-context] Re: OT: PDF word counts?

2005-11-02 Thread 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?

Re: [NTG-context] Re: OT: PDF word counts?

2005-11-02 Thread 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