Count Characters And Words In PDF Files Using Python In Linux

Counting words and characters in text files is straightforward, but what if you need to do the same with PDF files? PDFs are widely used for sharing documents because they maintain formatting across different devices. However, their structure makes text extraction a bit more complex than with plain text files. In this video, I'll guide you through creating a Python script that can count the number of words and characters in a PDF file in Linux.







What you will learn:
1. Setting Up Your Environment
a. How to use the PyPDF2 library to extract text from the PDF files
b. How to install PyPDF2 library
2. A Python Script to Count Words and Characters in PDF Files
a. How to count the number of words and characters in a PDF file
b. How to analyze a PDF file by extracting its text content and then counting the total number of words and characters within that text
c. How to use the PyPDF2 library to read the PDF file and the argparse module to handle command-line arguments
d. How to extract text
e. How to run the script from the command line
f. How to show the total number of words, characters including newlines, and characters excluding newlines
3. How to analyze PDF files
4. How to count words and characters both with and without newline characters





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