Saturday, 28 March 2009

Get PDF Word Count In Linux

Quick easy way to get the word count of a pdf.


# pdfwc.sh
# usage ./pdfwc.sh filename.pdf
#
TMPFILE=___tmpfile.tmp
pdftotext $1 $TMPFILE
wc $TMPFILE -w
rm $TMPFILE
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  1. links for 2009-07-03 « Where Is All This Leading To?3 July 2009 at 18:09

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  2. Jonas29 July 2009 at 20:50

    Would probably do:
    #!/bin/sh
    # pdfwc.sh
    # usage ./pdfwc.sh filename.pdf
    #
    pdftotext $1 - | wc -w
    #__EOF__

    instead.

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