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Word Count - PDF Document | Doesn't seem to be accurate with pdf

John Fossey — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 20:14:00 +0000

Forum: Office applications
Topic: Word Count - PDF Document
Poster: John Fossey
Post title: Doesn't seem to be accurate with pdf

I just tried DocuCount on a document I am working on. I had previuosly manually converted the pdf to Word using ABBYY Finereader 15. This Word document has 226 pages (as does the pdf) and 52330 words. Almost all the words are plain text, some text over an image, but no text as an image.

DocuCount's count had only 118 pages and 23696 words, a far cry from the real number. It's a good thing that I hadn't quoted based on DocuCount's figures.

Word Count - PDF Document | Free tool to count number of words in pdf, images...

Javier PARDO FURNESS — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 08:59:00 +0000

Forum: Office applications
Topic: Word Count - PDF Document
Poster: Javier PARDO FURNESS
Post title: Free tool to count number of words in pdf, images...

You can use DocuCount by Tradutema ( [url removed] ) to get number of words straightaway in just 3 seconds from a list of files (images, pdf, locked pdf, protected pdf, Docx…), even handwritten text. You will get a log including number of words per file, number of pages, totals etc that you can copy paste in Excel . It’s free. It’s incredibily fast because it uses Artificial Intelligence, instead of OCR conversion function.

Word Count - PDF Document | automatic word count in pdf and images

aitteam — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:59:00 +0000

Forum: Office applications
Topic: Word Count - PDF Document
Poster: aitteam
Post title: automatic word count in pdf and images

Hi,

AnyCount does [url= [url removed] ]automatic pdf word counts[/url] from version 4.0. And we have just released new version, which also does word counts in image file formats - BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF.

I hope this utility will serve you well as it already did to 5000 freelance translators worldwide. Feel free to suggest further ways to enhance it... after adding word count in images we have run out of ideas on how to make it even better :)))

Word Count - PDF Document | Translator's Abacus

William Gallagher — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:37:00 +0000

Forum: Office applications
Topic: Word Count - PDF Document
Poster: William Gallagher
Post title: Translator's Abacus

Pike's suggestion is a good one. I just downloaded Translator's Abacus, and it performed a word count of a .pdf file easily.

Word Count - PDF Document | No, and some times

Dr. Francisco Guerrero — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:10:00 +0000

Forum: Office applications
Topic: Word Count - PDF Document
Poster: Dr. Francisco Guerrero
Post title: No, and some times

[quote]aburiaz wrote:

I am not aware whether this has already been discussed here or not as I have joined the site only recently. Sorry fo duplication, if any.

Could some senior please guide me as to how:

1. I can count the words on a PDF document?

2. I can copy/ paste a portion from a pdf document to a Word doc?

Thanks in advance and regards to all.

aburiaz [/quote]

1. Unfortunately PDF does not have a word count. What we do is to: select it, and copy it into MS Word, and go from there. 2. PDF lets you select and copy, UNLESS it's a SECURED format where the originator, or author DOES NOT want for anybody to copy in part or in whole the document. There are the two forms. Good question , though. Francisco

Word Count - PDF Document | OK

pike — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:19:00 +0000

Forum: Office applications
Topic: Word Count - PDF Document
Poster: pike
Post title: OK

I'd say that the Translators' Abacus should solve part of your problem - free download of wordcount app @

[url removed]

As to the .pdf > txt/rtf/doc conversion, there's quite a few tools out there, some free, most of them just don't cut it... haven't had the... errr...time, lol to try out some of the rather expensive complex solutions, but Acrobat's paper capture sometimes does the trick, and if it doesn't, you should try Readiris Pro or some other OCR software...

Happy solution hunting!

[Edited at 2006-04-21 19:23]

Word Count - PDF Document | Hello aburiaz

Natalie — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:42:00 +0000

Forum: Office applications
Topic: Word Count - PDF Document
Poster: Natalie
Post title: Hello aburiaz

What about the second part of your question, please see this article:
[url removed]

Natalia

Word Count - PDF Document | Counting words in PDF

Peter Linton (X) — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:32:00 +0000

Forum: Office applications
Topic: Word Count - PDF Document
Poster: Peter Linton (X)
Post title: Counting words in PDF

The answer to your first question lies in your second section. Convert the PDF file into editable format (eg DOC, RTF) and count the words there. There have been many previous discussions about software for doing this.

Check your editable version carefully against the PDF original, because there may be text held as graphics. I once received a PDF with 3 pages. The first and third were text, the second page was a graphics snapshot of the text originally on page 2. Therefore the words in the snapshot were not counted - but still had to be translated.

Word Count - PDF Document | Copy and paste from a PDF doc

Julie Allison — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:17:00 +0000

Forum: Office applications
Topic: Word Count - PDF Document
Poster: Julie Allison
Post title: Copy and paste from a PDF doc

Hi!
1. I hope someone will be able to show how we can count words on these documents. I still don't know. All I am aware of is software out there which can be bought to do this. Maybe someone will be able to advise on one of these software applications for counting words in PDF docs.

2. Copying and pasting from PDF files, I can do. There is a camera icon in the toolbar of your PDF/Adobe application when you have a PDF doc open. Click on this, then outline the section of text you want to copy. This appears to take a photographic image of this section.
Then in your Word doc, you just right click your mouse to "paste", where you want the text to be. This remains in this document as an image.

Hope this helps somewhat.

Word Count - PDF Document | Previous threads

Stefanie Sendelbach — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:09:00 +0000

Forum: Office applications
Topic: Word Count - PDF Document
Poster: Stefanie Sendelbach
Post title: Previous threads

Hi aburiaz,

Welcome to Proz.com :)

You can go to Community -> Forum search and type in "word count" and "PDF". There are lots of hits. For example:

- [url removed]
- [url removed]
- [url removed]

Good luck,
Stefanie

Word Count - PDF Document

abufaraz — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:19:00 +0000

Forum: Office applications
Topic: Word Count - PDF Document
Poster: abufaraz

I am not aware whether this has already been discussed here or not as I have joined the site only recently. Sorry fo duplication, if any.

Could some senior please guide me as to how:

1. I can count the words on a PDF document?

2. I can copy/ paste a portion from a pdf document to a Word doc?

Thanks in advance and regards to all.

aburiaz