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Counting software for Mac | Word Counter

Emmanuelle Riffault — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:19:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Counting software for Mac
Poster: Emmanuelle Riffault
Post title: Word Counter

Hello Lise,
I've been using Word Counter for several years now. Maybe other programms appeared since on the market ;-)

Liebe Grüße

Emmanuelle

Counting software for Mac | Any new counting tools for Mac OS X?

lisevs — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:31:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Counting software for Mac
Poster: lisevs
Post title: Any new counting tools for Mac OS X?

Hi,

it has been a while since this thread was first started - maybe someone has found a good counting tool (like Anycount or PractiCount) that works on Mac OS X? - I need such a tool (or other suggestions on how to count severas word or excel files on Mac)

Thanks a lot in advance

Counting software for Mac | How to convert pdf docs to Word using Readiris - in order to obtain a word count using a Mac.

Cynthia Hernandez — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:55:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Counting software for Mac
Poster: Cynthia Hernandez
Post title: How to convert pdf docs to Word using Readiris - in order to obtain a word count using a Mac.

Open Readiris
In Settings, choose Word as Output Format
Open File - Make sure you are in Automatic Mode (Upper Left Corner)
Conversion is all automatic and produces an rtf file for Word
Save Window appears with suggested file name. Save in Folder desired.
Word will open automatically.
Go to Tools Menu and open Word Count.
Voila!

Cyndy

Counting software for Mac

Bennorca — Mon, 31 May 2004 11:28:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Counting software for Mac
Poster: Bennorca

Emanuelle,

Yes, you'll find counters for PowePoint on apluscounts.com.
I do not know, however, whether it works for OS X. I have it on a 9.3 version and it works fine.

I know that the version for WORD does not work with OS X - you will probably have to test the free demo version first.

Hope this helps.

Ben

Counting software for Mac | Thank you Roberta...

Emmanuelle Riffault — Wed, 26 May 2004 13:56:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Counting software for Mac
Poster: Emmanuelle Riffault
Post title: Thank you Roberta...

...for this very informative answer ;-)

I also always notice this kind of difference between Word and Wordfast for example.

Emmanuelle

Counting software for Mac | abracompteur plug-in

Roberta Anderson — Wed, 26 May 2004 13:51:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Counting software for Mac
Poster: Roberta Anderson
Post title: abracompteur plug-in

For counting words in PDFs, you might want to check this one out:
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Free JavaScript plug-in, for Acrobat Reader or Acrobat full, version 5 and 6, for Mac, Unix and Win.

I have actually found a discrepancy between the wordcount I get with this one and what I get on the same file with PDFCount on the PC (PDFCount is not available for Mac):
a 10 pp file gives me 6616 words with abracompteur, 6426 with PDFCounter, while the same files exported from PDF as a Word file gives me 5736 words in Word...

I'd expect the pdf wordcounters probably count the various headers/footers on each page, while Word may leave them out; also the PDF has bookmarks, which may account for a few more words. Also in this particular file the PDF had some text in coloured boxes, which got saved as images in the doc file, so not counted in Word - which would account in my case for at least 500 uncounted words.

When I do not get a wordcount supplied by the client, I usually give him the wordcount I got mentioning the method or tool used, right at the onset - so as to avoid any quibbles at invoice stage.

ciao,
Roberta

Counting software for Mac | Thank you Ken

Emmanuelle Riffault — Wed, 26 May 2004 09:49:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Counting software for Mac
Poster: Emmanuelle Riffault
Post title: Thank you Ken

[quote]Kenneth Cox wrote:
That aside, the only way I know to do word counts for pdf files is to extract the text (using copy & paste or an extraction or OCR program) and put it in a Word document. Maybe Acrobat (the full version,not the Reader) can do direct word counts; I don't know.
[/quote]

I also extract the text from a pdf document into word for couting (or OCR if needed). I now have full Acrobat but haven't tried yet if it can count now :-)

[quote]Kenneth Cox wrote:
For ppt files, just use File/Properties to obtain the word count generated by PowerPoint
[/quote]

Well, thank you for that. I didn't know this possibility.

Have a nice day!

Emmanuelle

Counting software for Mac | not that I know of, but...

Ken Cox — Wed, 26 May 2004 09:35:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Counting software for Mac
Poster: Ken Cox
Post title: not that I know of, but...

I love the MacOS (although Windows 2000/XP are finally in the same league), but the translation world doesn't, so translation-related applications for the Mac are hard to find.

That aside, the only way I know to do word counts for pdf files is to extract the text (using copy & paste or an extraction or OCR program) and put it in a Word document. Maybe Acrobat (the full version,not the Reader) can do direct word counts; I don't know.

For ppt files, just use File/Properties to obtain the word count generated by PowerPoint (which incidentally is what the Windows-based PractiCount program says it does).

good luck -- ken

[Edited at 2004-05-26 09:35]

Counting software for Mac

Emmanuelle Riffault — Wed, 26 May 2004 09:26:00 +0000

Forum: Apple/Mac operating systems
Topic: Counting software for Mac
Poster: Emmanuelle Riffault

Hello!
Does anybody know and use a software which can counts words, lines etc. in pdf and ppt files?
I have read some indications for such a software for Windows and I wonder if there's one for Mac users as well.

Thanks a lot!

Emmanuelle

[Edited at 2004-05-26 09:27]