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Thread poster: Nadia Said
Nadia Said
Nadia Said
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Mar 25, 2003

Hello,



could any one please tell me whether there\'s an easy way to make a word count in a PDF file.



Thank you nery much in advance for your help!


 
Louise Dupont (X)
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Copy and paste Mar 26, 2003

Copy to clipboard and open a new word document and paste the content of the clipboard then count with Word counter.

But be carefull, some parts of PDF are like pictures so they won\'t appear on the word document..

Good luck


 
Tyas Pribadi
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Get Acrobat or PDF converter Mar 26, 2003

Nadia,



You must have Adobe Acrobat program (NOT reader) or third party PDF conevrter program.

Open the file, save it in RTF format, then open the RTF file with Word. Count the word from word-count feature within Word. Done!



Tyas


 
Nikolai Muraviev
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Extract to .rtf and use Word Statistics Mar 26, 2003

You may extract text staff from PDF into .rtf fornat and then use \"standard\" MS WOrd statistics.

Good luck!



 
Nadia Said
Nadia Said
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More explanation please Mar 26, 2003

Hi Louise,



Thank you very much for your help.

The pdf file I\'m dealing with was first scanned from a book, so I can\'t even select it.It\'s protected you know.

Could you pls explain this more to me:

Should I go to \"file\" then choose \"copy file to clipboard\", then what?

When I open the clipboard viewer, I find an image of an Acrobat document!

I won\'t rest till I find a way


 
RWSTranslation
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Full version Mar 26, 2003

Hello,



if you use the full version of Adobe Acrobat, you can save all text in a text or rtf file.

Hans


 
Marocas
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PDF word count Mar 26, 2003

I agree with Louise. That\'s the only way I have found so far.

 
monitor
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PractiCount Mar 26, 2003

If you have to count pdf-files regularly go to practiline.com and have that product checked with Adobe 5.05. (the update of the latter [5.0 to 5.05] is for free).

Good luck.

Marcel


 
Sabine Nay
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Word count for AR 5.1 files Mar 26, 2003

Download



http://abracadabrapdf.free.fr//download/AbraCompteur2.zip



Copy the javascript file into your folder c:\\program files\\Acrobat 5.0\\JavaScript



Launch Acrobat Reader 5.1 (!!! 5.0 is not supported).

Open the Tools menu of Acrobat Reader. It now contains a word count option.


 
Uldis Liepkalns
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Latvia
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Use OCR Mar 27, 2003

Import your PDF file to OCR software(in Finereader 6 - file> open image), and recognise it usual way. It can be done also with password protected pdf files, which any other way can\'t be copied, resaved, printed or whatever, only viewed on screen.
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