Re: [libreoffice-users] word count in impress

On 03/10/17 01:01, jorge Rodríguez wrote:
> Hi Thomas:
>
>         I think that I have a solution using GNU / Linux Ubuntu, or
> maybe the solution it would be able with other program similar that you
> can find:
>
>     1) Install the program: gpdftext (GTK+ text editor for ebook PDF
> files, gpdftext opens a simple text-based PDF file, typically
> intended for reading on an ebook reader and loads the text into a text
> editor window, autoformatting the text for long lines and paragraph breaks.
> gpdftext is useful when the downloaded PDF uses a small font or wastes a
> lot of space in the margins so that a plain text file would display in a
> more comfortable font. gpdftext supports spell checking and editor font
> selection
> and can save ASCII content as PDF.) Web site:
> https://sourceforge.net/directory/os:linux/?q=gpdftext
>
>     2) Save the Impress Presentation in .pdf format
>
>     3) Open the Impress Presentation with gpdftext
>
>     4) gpdftext convert the .pdf document in simple format text
>
>     5) Save the document as .txt
>
>     6) Open the document with Writer an use the tool that it has: Menu->
> Word Count

Thank you Jorge for bringing gpdftext to my attention. Amazing how one
can still find new tools within systems already in use since several years.

I hope the OP doesn't require too high a level of precision in his count
of the words. I just tested a pdf file with gpdftest. Then I opened it
in gedit [a text editor which provides stats] which gave me 553 words.

Then I tried Writer and it gave 567 words. OK - that is not a large
discrepancy and there again the document was very small but 2 1/2% could
be significant.

The only stat that gedit and Writer did agree on was the number of
characters excluding spaces.

Philip

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