With linux and xpdf-tools its as easy as pdftotext xyz.pdf wc -w xyz.txt
Best, Raphael On 08.04.2014 20:44, Eric Dodge wrote: > Seems like there are 2 steps here, getting the text into a more usable > format and then getting the word counts. There are programs that let you > dump pdf into text (http://pdf2txt.software.informer.com/3.2/ for > example) in batches. Then paste the text into a tool like this > (http://www.textfixer.com/tools/online-word-counter.php) to get the word > counts. > > Eric > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Suren Makkar <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > Quick Rookie question, I'm trying to get total word counts for all > occurring words in a bunch of PDFs, and I am lost. Help? > > > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Raphael Susewind | BGHS Bielefeld University, CSASP University of Oxford Snail Mail | Melanchthonstr. 4a, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany Papers & Blog | http://www.raphael-susewind.de Please do consider http://www.gnupg.org for encryption (key id A5ED49AE) -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
