Word Count missing on Acrobat

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October 19, 2023
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When writing certain legal documents for Appellate Courts they require a word count certification. I must export all text to get this count. Unless I'm missing something.

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try67

Community Expert

You can use this free tool I've developed to do that, but keep Joel's correct comments in mind. The result might be quite different from what you get if you run the same command in Word, for example.

The tool is available here: http://try67.blogspot.com/2015/01/reader-word-count-free.html

MyangoUtmostAuthor

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I will be straight up, I get nervous on links. Let me check your profile a bit. Check my answer above. Maybe I'll try your link, does it take the PDF file because it gets conplex, it's a form with several fields. Then it has the legal line numbers and footer. Thanks for the reply,

Joel Geraci

Community Expert

It's pretty easy to do using JavaScript. Do you need to count every word or do you not include the "stop words"? Would something like a url such as www.adobe.com be one word or 3?

MyangoUtmostAuthor

Known Participant

Thanks for the reply, was rushing to court I used TextEdit search tab, click magnifying glass, insert pattern, word (any word characters). I could also use terminal. Both of these options require a text file be made, since Acrobat doesn't do a grammar check I already had text files. I do JavaScript programming so teach me something, proceed. I need every word regardless of underlines.

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