![]() It is a set of rules that say should be included or not included. You may need to write special rules if you are using any custom environments or unusual packages. TeXCount is what you want if consistency is important, and it can handle subfiles, includes, etc. Certainly, as an undergrad (when I used it too), counts were always over and it never caused a problem. pdf has to go through Turnitin, I think, but IIRC that produces terrible estimates anyway as it overcounts. Likewise, if anyone has any info on how much this actually matters, that would be nice too. If anyone has recent experience of trying to get an accurate word count, especially if it was for a thesis submission (where rules are strict) I'd really welcome that. Pdftotext thesis.pdf - | tr " " "\n" | grep -Ff words | wc -l (This gives 20478 words) The code (I'm also hoping someone can explain it to me) is: pdftotext thesis.pdf - | wc -w (This gives 24523 words) However the top two answers give estimates for my pdf of ~21,000 words and ~25,000 - which seems an unacceptably high error margin. It would be nice to have it for the whole thesis, without needing to manually sum the numbers. I use TexStudio (on Ubuntu) but this just gives a read-out for whichever. In my experience, office suits handle only simple mainly text pdfs well. I've seen people say this is the easiest/best way, but I assume they _don't_ have long / complex documents for that to be true. I'm aware I can just copy and paste the text, but as my thesis is complex (I'm using the subfiles package, and have fancy headers and footers, IPA transcriptions, a few equations, etc), it doesn't (1) get converted well, and (2) is a faff anyway. The final bibliography is not included in-text citations (I use APA), footnotes, captions, etc etc are. My purposes: I'm currently writing up my PhD thesis, and it needs to be 80-100,000 words. ![]() How do you count words, and what would you recommend? I'm sure this has come up before, but as it seems it might be something that evolves with time, I thought I'd make a new post. ![]()
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