Dear Monks,

I need to count the number of words in the PDF file.

What i tried is, i saved the PDF file as word file and using Win32::OLE i added a vba macro to count the number of words. The problem is, it is taking very large time to save pdf as word document.

Earlier i did some work using CAM::PDF, in that there is no method to identify number of words.

Is it possible to count the number of words with word application? If so is there any other module to accomplish this? Even if there is any module to 'save as' pdf to word in perl please guide.

Regards,
Anniyan
(CREATED in HELL by DEVIL to s|EVILS|GOODS|g in WORLD)

In reply to Count number or words in PDF by anniyan

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