[OS X TeX] wordcount

[George Gratzer]

Google pdf word count. Lots of free options.

GG

> On Nov 28, 2022, at 1:40 AM, Richard Benish <rjbenish at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Doris,
> 
> When I need to know the number of words in my documents, I use the nifty free "word processor" called Bean.
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> https://bean-osx.com/Bean.html
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> 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:
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>> 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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