[OS X TeX] wordcount

[Richard Benish]

Doris,

When I need to know the number of words in my documents, I use the nifty 
free "word processor" called Bean.

https://bean-osx.com/Bean.html

It's good for lots of other things that do not need to be so pretty as 
what LaTeX is so good at.

Have fun.

Richard Benish



On 11/27/22 10:23 PM, Doris Behrendt via MacOSX-TeX wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> how can I count the words of a pdf-Document that I generated with LaTeX?
>
> I tried opening it in MSWord, which showed a always changing number of words, depending on the status of the scrollbar, at the end it gave up scrolling totally;
>
> I also tried this:
>
> ps2ascii file.pdf | wc -w
>
> which worked ok; but I am not sure how pictures and maths etc. are handled when counting like this ...
>
> I also tried some apps, but was not happy, because my file has over 700 pages and most of the apps needed to copy and paste text ...
>
> since my file contains lots of math and lots of code and lots of pictures, I just wanted to ask if anyone of you had to count words of such a document before and how you did it?
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