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Thread poster: mónica alfonso
mónica alfonso
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Jul 13, 2002

It is a quite long document, I have also the images pasted on a word document, but of course words cannot be counted in either of them.

Any suggestion?

I think this question has already been asked, but unfortunately could not find it in the forum.

Thanks in advance
 
Trudy Peters
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Try this Jul 13, 2002

It MAY work



Create a blank Word document. Go into the .pdf file, \"select all\", \"copy\" and \"paste\" into the Word document.



The formatting will be off, but it should be good enough for word-counting purposes.



Good luck!



Trudy
 
Miriam Demartis
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words counting Jul 13, 2002

What Trudy mentioned works. after pasting into a blank word ducument, you just have to go to the menu point file->properties. it will open a new window where you can select the \"file-info\" tab. there you see the document statistics, which includes the words count.



Best



Miriam



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On 2002-07-13 01:15, Trudy wrote:

It MAY work ... See more
What Trudy mentioned works. after pasting into a blank word ducument, you just have to go to the menu point file->properties. it will open a new window where you can select the \"file-info\" tab. there you see the document statistics, which includes the words count.



Best



Miriam



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On 2002-07-13 01:15, Trudy wrote:

It MAY work



Create a blank Word document. Go into the .pdf file, \"select all\", \"copy\" and \"paste\" into the Word document.



The formatting will be off, but it should be good enough for word-counting purposes.



Good luck!



Trudy

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mónica alfonso
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it has not worked in this case Jul 13, 2002

Create a blank Word document. Go into the .pdf file, \"select all\", \"copy\" and \"paste\" into the Word document



I tried, but it did noy work.

Thanks AW
 
Li-chuan Yen
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Select the text Jul 13, 2002

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On 2002-07-13 02:18, alfpach wrote:

Create a blank Word document. Go into the .pdf file, \"select all\", \"copy\" and \"paste\" into the Word document



I tried, but it did noy work.

Thanks AW





In Acrobat Reader, the default pointer is the hand. Click \"Text Selection Tool (V)\", which looks like a \"T\" with a couple of boxes. Then you can copy the text.
 
Mats Wiman
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Gemini Solo converts PDF files to text Jul 13, 2002

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Features


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http://www.iceni.com says:



\"What is \"Gemini Solo\"?

Gemini Solo is the latest incarnation of our existing product \"Gemini\" - a plug-in to Adobe Acrobat. However, Solo is not a plug-in but a stand-alone application. The advantage of this is that you do not need Acrobat or any other software in order to make use of Solo. It works right out of the box!



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Ralf Lemster
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Possible problem and forum link Jul 13, 2002

Hi Mónica,

One possible reason why copy & paste doesn\'t work could be the Acrobat security settings - it\'s possible to protect a PDF file, in which case you can neither copy & paste, nor can you save the file in RTF (even if you have the full Acrobat software). To find out whether that\'s the case, go to the \'Edit\' menu - if \'Select all\' is disabled, it looks like you\'ve got a protected file. If so, contact your customer and ask them for an unprotected one, or (better) get the ... See more
Hi Mónica,

One possible reason why copy & paste doesn\'t work could be the Acrobat security settings - it\'s possible to protect a PDF file, in which case you can neither copy & paste, nor can you save the file in RTF (even if you have the full Acrobat software). To find out whether that\'s the case, go to the \'Edit\' menu - if \'Select all\' is disabled, it looks like you\'ve got a protected file. If so, contact your customer and ask them for an unprotected one, or (better) get the source file.



You may also want to have a look at this forum thread:

www.proz.com/?sp=bb/viewtopic&eid_c=20821&post=10724#10724

BTW I found it by using the site search function (search string \"word count\").



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Al Gallo
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Charge as per target language. Jul 13, 2002

Hi Mónica,

This is something that was suggested in this forum before and makes a lot of sense. I would add that in certain cases a percentage could be added/deducted according to some of your average differences in word count between your two working languages.
 
Libin PhD
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http://www.pdfcount.com/ Jul 13, 2002

You can use an Acrobat plug-in to count the number of words in a PDF file. It works with both full version of Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. Here is the link:



http://www.pdfcount.com/



For counting words in multiple files (including those in subfolders)of .doc, .rtf, .xls, .ppt, .wpd, .txt, and .htm, you can use PractiCount.

The link for PractiCount is as follows:


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You can use an Acrobat plug-in to count the number of words in a PDF file. It works with both full version of Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. Here is the link:



http://www.pdfcount.com/



For counting words in multiple files (including those in subfolders)of .doc, .rtf, .xls, .ppt, .wpd, .txt, and .htm, you can use PractiCount.

The link for PractiCount is as follows:



http://www.practiline.com/

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