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What is the "best" word counting tool in your experience
Thread poster: Lightnlife
Lightnlife
Lightnlife
Bolivia
Local time: 20:50
Spanish to English
+ ...
Sep 29, 2015

Looking at purchasing a word counting software and would like to hear opinions regarding what translators feel is the best or better word counting tool from the ones that are available today.
 
Vadim Kadyrov
Vadim Kadyrov  Identity Verified
Ukraine
Local time: 03:50
English to Russian
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FineCount Sep 29, 2015

the best one.
 
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Local time: 09:50
Reasons for differences among tools Sep 29, 2015

While I don't have a recommendation for a "best" word counting tool, I have done some research (and released an open source tool) into what causes differences in words counts between different tools.

Common word count gray areas include:
-Ellipses
-Hyperlinks
-Contractions
-Hyphenated Words
-Dates
-Numbers
-Numbered Lists
-XML and HTML tags
-Forward slash... See more
While I don't have a recommendation for a "best" word counting tool, I have done some research (and released an open source tool) into what causes differences in words counts between different tools.

Common word count gray areas include:
-Ellipses
-Hyperlinks
-Contractions
-Hyphenated Words
-Dates
-Numbers
-Numbered Lists
-XML and HTML tags
-Forward slashes and backslashes
-Punctuation
-Headers
-Footers
-Hidden Text specific to Microsoft Word

For details on how common word count tools (Microsoft Word, Pages, wc(Unix)) handle these gray areas, please see these charts.

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Gerard de Noord
Gerard de Noord  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 02:50
Member (2003)
English to Dutch
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Count Anything Sep 30, 2015

I've been using Count Anything for years now. It's free, fast and easy to use. It accepts many file formats, doesn't miss anything and doesn't try to be smarter than Microsoft Word, the tool most of my clients use to check my counts.

http://ginstrom.com/CountAnything/

If counting with Count Anything isn't possible, I use SDL Trados Studio 2014.

Cheers,
Gerar... See more
I've been using Count Anything for years now. It's free, fast and easy to use. It accepts many file formats, doesn't miss anything and doesn't try to be smarter than Microsoft Word, the tool most of my clients use to check my counts.

http://ginstrom.com/CountAnything/

If counting with Count Anything isn't possible, I use SDL Trados Studio 2014.

Cheers,
Gerard ▲ Collapse
 
Rolf Kern
Rolf Kern  Identity Verified
Switzerland
Local time: 02:50
English to German
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In memoriam
TextCount 6.1 Sep 30, 2015

That's what I am using after having tried some others. See http://textcount.de
 


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