Re: Count words/characters in ps or pdf

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Subject: Re: Count words/characters in ps or pdf
From: Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:24:35 -0500
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 02:55:59PM +0200, lists@webconect.ch wrote:
>    Hi all
> 
>     
> 
>    I'm looking for a program to easily count words and characters (with
> 
>    and without spaces) in ps or pdf documents.
> 
>     
> 
>    Any suggestions?

How about:
pdftotext <pdffile>|wc -w

Kumar
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