Count highlighted words and phrases

Question

Has anyone created an action, similar to the find and highlight, from the masterful Lori Kassuba, to create a count of the number of highlighted words in a document?

I need to create a pdf, highlight a set of words/phrases from a list and know how many occurrences, preferably unique (that is to say, the first occurrence of each unique word/phrase highlighted) exist.

Failing that, if anyone could point me to a resource for creating the action, that'll work too.

Thanks in advance 😉

Thom Parker · Answer

If you downloaded that Action from the Actions Exchange at AcrobatUser.com, then I wrote it. The entire action is written in JavaScript, and Lori is not a programmer.

To get a word count you can simply multiply the number of highlight annotations by the number of words in the search.

Another approach would be to modify this action to keep a running count of the words found. However, Extracting the script is a bit of a trick. It was writtin for Acrobat X, and will not open in the Actions' editor in Acrobat DC. However, you can get to the script by editing the XML.

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