Word count in pdf acrobat pro

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Registered: Oct 30 Did you mean:. Word Count. Has Adobe got word count? General troubleshooting. Follow Report. Community guidelines. Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more. Jump to latest reply. However, check out my work around and see if it helps: with Acrobat Pro DC you can create a single blank PDF page, and place a button with a javascript action to perform a word count.

And all you have to do is open Acrobat Reader Mobile and merge or combine this PDF with whatever document you want to perform the word count with See slides below. When you open your combined PDF file click on the action script button to get the wordcount of your merged PDF document.

Below, selecting Organize Pages tool to see the final result of the merged documents : NOTE: Be advised that the wordcount script might not be entirely accurate since the total word count seems to vary from app to app.

Here is a link to my shared file: Word Count action script button All credits to whoever did the javascript for the wordcount. From grammar to spelling, there are tools for anything having to do with proofreading articles and drafts.

This could be for proofreading a business brochure or perhaps an essay draft. Locking it down in PDF format ensures that you get the exact text the author put together. Doing a word count, though simple, is important to meeting length requirements. So how do you do a word count in PDF? We know that PDF content is hard to interact with, but in this blog post, we cover a few tools that can help you do a word count for PDF. To select text from only certain pages, you can use the Select Page… option or Select Range… options to choose only a section you want a word count for.