Web Application and PDF Word Counts

[paul@bigapp]

Hi
I am updating a .NET MVC C# Web application for a client.
The requirement is to allow customers to upload a PDF which we will securely store on AWS and then get the word count and character count for that PDF for later processing (language would be a nice addition).

I have looked at Acrobat XI SDK but I am unable to run any of the examples because I only have Adobe Reader installed.

So my questions are:

For this small requirement should my client be looking to purchase an Acrobat license or would a Datalogics product be better?
Which Acrobat product would be best?
Would an Acrobat license cover the development, UAT, and production environments?

[Thom Parker]

Acrobat Licensing forbids use as or on a server.  For a server, you need to get a comercial license for one of the many PDF libraries. The official Acrobat PDF Library is sold by Datalogics.  

Just do a google search to find many more, iText is the best 3rd party library, then PDFBox, there's also PDFLib, QuickPDF, etc. 

[try67]

As mentioned, you can't do this with Acrobat, or Reader. If you're interested I could develop for you a stand-alone tool that does it, using Java. You can contact me privately via [try6767 at gmail.com] to discuss it further.