JSX for word count, including tables

[ryan_kiefer]

Hi folks,

I've tried two different scripts (found on this site) to attempt to get the word count out of an entire book, including all stories, tables, and captions.

The first:

alert("There are "+ app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().words.length +" words in the active document.")

Then this one, which doesn't count numbers and symbols, which I like:

app.findGrepPreferences = null;

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "[\\u\\l][-\\u\\l]+";

found = app.documents[0].findGrep ();

alert ("There are " + found.length + " words in this document.")

The difficulty is that neither of them include words in tables. Is there a way to force this in this script?

[Peter Kahrel]

// First do a word count in the main text (as before)

found = app.documents[0].findGrep ().length;

// Then find every word in every table in every story

t = app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().findGrep();

// "t" is an array of arrays, now you need to add the length of each array to "found"

for (i = 0; i < t.length; i++)
   found += t.length;

alert ("There are " + found + " words in this document.")

Peter

[ryan_kiefer]

As written, it threw an error. When I added script from one of my other ones, it did, but I am still not getting the correct answer. It now looks like this.

// First do a word count in the main text (as before)

app.findGrepPreferences = null;

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "[\\u\\l][-\\u\\l]+";

found = app.documents[0].findGrep ().length;

// Then find every word in every table in every story

t = app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().findGrep();

// "t" is an array of arrays, now you need to add the length of each array to "found"

for (i = 0; i < t.length; i++)

   found += t.length;

alert ("There are " + found + " words in this document.")

It somehow manages to give a word count lower than the one which skips tables, and is over 1000 less than our "official" count from our translation company.

[Peter Kahrel]

>It somehow manages to give a word count lower than the one which skips tables

That's bizarre. It doesn't do any subtractions, so how the total can be lower if you include tavles is beyond me.

>and is over 1000 less than our "official" count from our translation company.

What does "official count" mean?

Petr

[ryan_kiefer]

It is strange. All I can guess is that there is somehow some hidden text in the document that the translation company's software is seeing. Is that a possibility with INDD files?

And it's a good question what "official" means. I'll have to ask our translation dept what the vendor is using to get that word count. I hope they haven't been shafting us all along...

[Jill8471]

Did you ever successfully find a way to count all of the words in a book, including captions, TOC, etc.? Is there a software now that does this? I can't even find TextCount.js.

I have inDesign CS3.

Thank you so much!

[TᴀW]

To me it seems that the premise in the OP is wrong. The GREP script does count words in tables.

Thanks,

Ariel

[Guest]

Hi,

You can try the following link for counting words including table:

http://indisnip.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/quicktip-counting-text-using-everyitem/

Regards

Peru.