Word Count in a PDF file

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?

[KALYAN ACHARJYA]

Using Matlab??

[Ahmed Alsaadi]

Yes, by using Matlab

Answer 1

[Omer Yasin Birey]

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);

[Ahmed Alsaadi]

Hi Omer,

I have got this error message when MATLAB executes the last line in the code "Error using sum Invalid data type. First argument must be numeric or logical."

[Omer Yasin Birey]

Ah, You are right Ahmed. I made a typo and also forgot a line there, try this instead:

counter = uniqueWordNumbers(:,2);
counterArray = table2array(counter);
totalWords = sum(counterArray);

add this table2array line and change the input of sum with this

[Ahmed Alsaadi]

It works now, thank you very much Omer.