On 2011-10-14, Kumar Appaiah <a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in> wrote:
>
> How about:
> pdftotext <pdffile>|wc -w

curty@einstein:~/glimmer$ pdftotext doctorswife.pdf | wc -w
0

Oops.

curty@einstein:~/glimmer$ pdftotext doctorswife.pdf - | wc -w
1415

I think you need the stdout hyphen; otherwise, with the file name
argument missing, it just writes <pdffile.txt>.


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