Re: evince Adding a word count to Evince

[Olaf Leidinger <oleid lusi uni-sb de>]

Hi!

> [...]
> What do people think?

I think such a feature is better suited for document editors, as they have 
more information on the document as a plain viewer and counting words is 
trivial. 

Take a PDF file as an example. What you see as text might actually be some kind 
of vector graphic shape. Even if the text is contained as such in the PDF file, 
those words you see might be composed of multiple "draw text at position 
(y,x)"-commands -- e.g. in case of umlauts or end of line. So a single word 
might count as multiple words. Therefore I think it might be hard to implement 
such a feature reliably. Have a look at pdftotext to see what I mean.

Olaf