Words per PAGE javascript

[DavidSweeneyBear]

Hi, I'm looking for a way to calculate how may words are on each page of a pdf rather than the whole document.

Does anyone know if getPageNumWords could be used to do this?

The query would need to recognize the position of the cursor in order to define the "current page" - is that possible?

Many thanks.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

That's exactly what this function does. Use this code to retrieve the number of words in the current page (the one being viewed, not necessarily where the cursor is located):

this.getPageNumWords(this.pageNum)

[DavidSweeneyBear]

... or if not the position of the cursor then some other way of recognizing the individual page to do the calculation for.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

That's exactly what this function does. Use this code to retrieve the number of words in the current page (the one being viewed, not necessarily where the cursor is located):

this.getPageNumWords(this.pageNum)

[DavidSweeneyBear]

Brilliant, thanks a mill!

[DavidSweeneyBear]

This does the job in console.... I'm just wondering how I might get it to output to a popup window, something like:

app.alert("There are " x " words in this page.");

Sorry - I really don't understand Javascript at all!

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Use this:

var numWords = this.getPageNumWords(this.pageNum);
app.alert("There are " + numWords + " words in this page.", 3);

[DavidSweeneyBear]

thanks so much... works like a charm 🙂

[JR Boulay]

My free abracadabraTools adds a Word Counter item in Acrobat's Edit menu:

https://www.abracadabrapdf.net/utilitaires/utilities-in-english/abracadabratools_en/

[DavidSweeneyBear]

sorry, but the document word count returns "0" and the page word count does nothing.