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

[d0nna6]

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

[Test Screen Name]

Select text, copy into Word, use Word's Properties.

[d0nna6]

That's the only way? Not so convenient with a long doc. Oh well. Thanks.

[try67]

It can be done within Acrobat, but it requires a script. And it's more complicated with a passage. Basically that can't be done directly. You'll need to first do something like highlight the text using the Highlight commenting tool before a script could count the number of words in it.

[Test Screen Name]

You could export to Word if it's many pages.

[d0nna6]

Thank you all--this is very helpful.

[alearn3]

There is automated tool, which handles pdf word count. It can even count PDFs with scanned images using built-in OCR engine.

[Nachal_nik]

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.

[Test Screen Name]

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.

[Vell26982714m2b3]

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.

[pwillener]

Adobe Reader does not provide a word count feature, but you could use the online counter http://felix-cat.com/tools/wordcount/

[David Cardillo, PRH]

link is now dead (404)

[katek89181044]

I just had this issue in a PDF...

I actually hit "select all" (control A), "copy" (control C), then opened a Word doc.

In Word doc, I hit "paste" (control v)

In Word doc, under "review" hit "word count"

hope this helps

[cordeliab76470571]

Good answer presuming you have Word.

[Test Screen Name]

Never heard of a translator who didn't have Word.

[Vell26982714m2b3]

There are many translators who don't use MS Word.

[alearn3]

You can use AnyCount PDF Word Count tool It can count words in Adobe PDF even without Acrobat Reader installed! Plus it counts words and characters in 37 more formats.

[David Cardillo, PRH]

does anyone know of a tool that doesn't cost $15/month/user?

yes, they have a free online tool, but if I can copy/paste into their web form, I can paste into Word and get the same count

[93filmsandmedia]

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.

By @Nachal_nik

WHY WOULD ADOBE NOT ICLUDE SOMETHING SO BASIC?   They've been failing a lot lately with me.  There's no Premier Rush for android.  You can't make AR filters for facebook and instagram with their Aero.  You can't make multiple copies of your work in Spark open at the same time, etc etc etc etc .   What's going on adobe?

[donnag29834815]

I'd like to know how to get a word count on a PDF document? Also, how do I highlight an entire file (so I can copy it onto Word which gives me a word count) without highlighting the first line and scrolling down line by line. Email is:(Email Address removed by Moderator).

[Barb Binder]

Reader doesn't have a word count feature.

Edit > Select all to highlight the text.

[donnag29834815]

Where do I find "Edit" and "Select all"

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[Barb Binder]

If you can't see the menus, press Escape.

You can can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl A.

[Test Screen Name]

It's a menu like in almost every app.

[try67]

I've developed a tool that allows you to do it directly in Acrobat (or Reader) and it is free. You can get it here: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Reader -- Word Count (FREE)