Word Count in a PDF file

Ahmed Alsaadi · Apr 12, 2022 · 2K views
Question
I have a PDF file "EHP.pdf", I want to count the total number of words in that file? This file has many sections I want to exclude the last section from the calculations. Any suggestions? 
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Answered Aug 23, 2026

Hi Ahmed, you can use extractFileText. You must choose a starter word and a finisher word, this word must be unique. Because, counting will end when Matlab encounters this word. By this way you can count the words between the starter and finisher. 

 

 

str = extractFileText("EHP.pdf");
i = strfind(str,"firstWord"); % write here the first word of your pdf
ii = strfind(str,"lastWord"); % write here the last word of your pdf, that must be distinctive
start = i(1);
fin = ii(1);
extracted = extractBetween(str,start,fin-1)
uniqueWordNumbers = wordCloudCounts(extracted);
counter = uniqueWordNumbers(:,2);
counterArray = table2array(counter);
totalWords = sum(counterArray);

 

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