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Is there any way I can count words in a PDF file without resorting to Acrobat Reader (which apparently has that feature)?
That's a massive program, which I actually don't like.
I need to count words in the PDF file because I write my papers with LaTeX, and they're full of my extensive comments.
Do you know of any alternative?
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see if there's a pdftotxt/pdf2txt command and then pass it's output through "wc". Might not be perfectly accurate but should give you an idea.
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that utility IIRC cannot be found on xpdf (the official Archlinux package) anymore and its part of poppler
edit: its pdftotext btw
Last edited by dolby (2008-05-11 13:35:05)
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Thanks guys, I guess that will have to do for me.
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