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?

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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 complicate 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.