Comments on: HOWTO: count “real” word in Latex document

By: name

name — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:20:48 +0000

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By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:44:49 +0000

That perl script is very nice. Thanks for the tip. Anyone up to the task of making it give section specific word count information? The output could add:

Section (Introduction): 300 words
Section (Methods): 500 words
Section (Results): 500 words

etc.

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By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:37:12 +0000

May be a bit late for you, but I came across this Perl script (and this blog post, too) while searching for a way to do a word count on a LaTex document.

I seems to work quite well!
http://folk.uio.no/einarro/Comp/texwordcount.html

By: samar

samar — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:02:53 +0000

Note that these methods do not seem to expand \newcommands or automatically count words in \inputted or \included documents.

I am still searching for a comprehensive way to do a latex word count, unfortunately the definitive way seems to involve converting the final pdf (I use pdflatex BTW) to text and then doing a wc on that.

Note also you can abbreviate

untex target.tex > count ; wc -w count

to simply

untex target.tex | wc -w

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By: Wei

Wei — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:50:23 +0000

Thanks Olli, I’ll check this out, looks good

By: Olli

Olli — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:45:10 +0000

hi there, here is another small utility that is able to count Words in Latex. It is called LaTeX Word Counter. As it is based on Java it should also run under Windows.

http://lwc.sourceforge.net/

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