katerina100 Finland Local time: 03:24 French to Finnish + ...
Oct 31, 2006
Hi there,
I am looking for a word count software that I could use to counting quickly the number of words on a doc./xls.file. Is there a free software, safe to download somewhere?
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Oliver Walter United Kingdom Local time: 01:24 Member (2005) German to English + ...
FineCount
Oct 31, 2006
FineCount might be suitable. I haven't used it myself. There's a free version and a paid-for version ($40) that can do more. http://www.tilti.com/new/en/index.php?id=2_finecountv2
According to the manual it will run under Windows 2000 and XP but not Windows 98.
Oliver
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Andrzej Lejman Poland Local time: 02:24 Member (2004) German to Polish + ...
Trados TagEditor
Oct 31, 2006
I have made some tests to estimate the accuracy of such software. The final word count of the same file may differ very much depending on software you are using. Thus there is no one really reliable.
If you have Trados, the best way is to open the document in TagEditor and use the ANALYSE function. In this way text boxes, footnotes and headers in Word are included. In spite of that, the statistical function of Word does not count them.
I'm also using PractiCount - it includes invoicing as a "one stop" solution. But almost always I make a double-check with Trados.
Best regards
Andrzej
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xxxMarc P Germany Local time: 02:24 German to English + ...
Definition of "accuracy"
Oct 31, 2006
Andrzej Lejman wrote:
I have made some tests to estimate the accuracy of such software. The final word count of the same file may differ very much depending on software you are using. Thus there is no one really reliable.
How do you measure the accuracy of the count, given that there is no consensus on the definition of a "word" in English, for example?
Marc
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Andrzej Lejman Poland Local time: 02:24 Member (2004) German to Polish + ...
Marc,
Oct 31, 2006
it's not my intention to conduct a thorough examination of the problem and to solve fundamental problems.
I simply compare existing tools to find out their weaknesses and advantages. I chose the most appropriate to my needs and preferences.
That's all.
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Andrzej
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xxxMarc P Germany Local time: 02:24 German to English + ...
What's "the best" word count software to use?
Oct 31, 2006
Apologies if you thought I was criticizing your post, Andrzej. I was just pointing out that because two products return a different count, it does not mean that one is more accurate than the other.
I am writing my own (very simple) count tool at the moment, btw. If anyone is interested in testing it (and/or learning to program), it is available here: http://www.omegat.org/omegat/omegatk/tkount_1.1.zip
Marc
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Marina Soldati Argentina Local time: 21:24 Member (2005) English to Spanish + ...
I´m interested in testing your sofware but does it run in Windows XP? Which are the system requirements?
Thanks
Marina
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xxxMarc P Germany Local time: 02:24 German to English + ...
What's "the best" word count software to use?
Oct 31, 2006
Marina Soldati wrote:
I´m interested in testing your sofware but does it run in Windows XP? Which are the system requirements?
It requires tcl/tk, Abiword (including the Abiword CLI plug-in) and pdftotxt. tcl/tk and Abiword are available for Windows, and AFAIK so is the Abiword CLI plug-in.
pdftotext is only available for Linux (and Mac) as far as I know, but you might be able to use an alternative command-line pdf-to-text converter for Windows, particularly pdf2txt (which costs $38, but there is a free trial version).
If you're interested in learning and playing around with the tcl/tk programming language (which is very easy - even I have learnt it!), it might be fun. Otherwise, probably not...
Marc
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Andrzej Lejman Poland Local time: 02:24 Member (2004) German to Polish + ...
Marc,
Oct 31, 2006
MarcPrior wrote:
Apologies if you thought I was criticizing your post, Andrzej. I was just pointing out that because two products return a different count, it does not mean that one is more accurate than the other.
Marc
I see this as a normal discussion, nothing in personal. So your apologies were not needed at all
The answer is simple: when you are ready to invest some time and hand work, counting the words in a file by hand, you can easily check than, how accurate the software is.
That's what I ment.
In my opinion, counting Word files with TagEditor is often the best method, since the software literally "sucks out" all single elements of the file.
But everyone has a free choice.
Best regards
Andrzej
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Rodolfo Raya Uruguay Local time: 21:24 Partial member (2008) English to Spanish
TagEditor does not count everything
Oct 31, 2006
Andrzej Lejman wrote:
If you have Trados, the best way is to open the document in TagEditor and use the ANALYSE function. In this way text boxes, footnotes and headers in Word are included. In spite of that, the statistical function of Word does not count them.
Tageditor can't translate page page headers, page footers, footnotes and embedded objects in an OpenOffice document.
You can't be sure that it counts everything, as it does not translate everything
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xxxMarc P Germany Local time: 02:24 German to English + ...
What's "the best" word count software to use?
Oct 31, 2006
The answer is simple: when you are ready to invest some time and hand work, counting the words in a file by hand, you can easily check than, how accurate the software is.
There are (at least) two reasons for discrepancies. One is that some tools do not count all of the text. Some tools don't count text in text boxes, headers, footers, etc. This is solved by counting manually as you suggest.
The other reason is that there is no consensus on what constitutes "a word". For example, is "don't" one word, or two? What about hyphenated words? Some tools would count 1,000,000 as three words, some as one, and some wouldn't count it at all.
Marc
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Ryan Ginstrom Japan Local time: 09:24 Japanese to English
Count Anything is a free tool that gives word counts for MS Office files
Aug 5, 2008
katerina100 wrote:
Hi there,
I am looking for a word count software that I could use to counting quickly the number of words on a doc./xls.file. Is there a free software, safe to download somewhere?
Count Anything is a free program that can count words in MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint, as well as PDF, HTML, XML, RTF, and text files. It tries to stick very closely to the word counts produced by MS Word, although there are some minor discrepancies (for example, MS Word counts bullets in bullet lists as words; Count Anything doesn't).
What is a word, asked xxxMarc P. Using "Word Frequency Counter" or "Word Frequency Counter Advanced" (for Windows XP to 7) from www.hermetic.ch/wfc/wfc.htm YOU decide what you want to count as a word. You can set following parameters: words with numerals / underscores _ / apostrophes ' / @ signs / colons : / forward slashes (I need a special separator here ) / periods . / backslashes \
In the Advanced Version a word may also include ampersands &, commas, opening and closing parentheses, plus up to five user-specified characters (such as currency signs and asterisks).
Word Frequency Counter costs $ 38.95 and Word Frequency Counter Advanced $ 63.95 for unlimited licenses. Time-limited licenses for 3 month or 1 year cost one fourth respectively half the price of an unlimited license. Trial versions are also available.
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