How to count number of words in a pdf file from Linux cli

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 04:30:03 +0000

Installation:
- If it’s not installed, you’ll need to install the poppler-utils package which includes pdftotext.
```
sudo apt install poppler-utils
```
or
```
yum install poppler-utils
```
depending on your distribution.
Usage:
- Once installed, you can convert a PDF to text and then count the words as follows:
```
pdftotext input.pdf - | wc -w
```
Here, input.pdf is your source PDF file, and wc -w counts the number of words. The - in pdftotext specifies that the output should be sent to stdout, which is then piped into wc.

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