How do I get a word count for a PDF doc or for a selected passage?

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September 10, 2012
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Does/can Adobe Reader have a feature that provides automatic word counts for documents? Translators need such numbers (actually, several metrics can be used, not just raw word count) as the primary basis for their fees.

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I've never heard of translators being able to do their work successfully with PDFs alone, still less with Adobe Reader.

They are probably working in Word or FrameMaker, and these do have word counts.

If someone other than the translator needs a word count and has only the final PDF, perhaps the best option is to copy and paste to Word for counting metrics.

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Some translators unfortunately receive source documents in PDF in spite of protests to those customers. At present I am looking at the PDF of a book of more than 250 pages and have no easy way to do a word count to confirm a quote for translation. It frankly sucks to have to do a very messy copy/paste to another application just to do a word count. The addition of a simple word count tool for Adobe Reader would be appreciated by many.

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