Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!feeder.enertel.nl!nntpfeed-01.ops.asmr-01.energis-idc.net!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "mr.sumo.snr." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Text counting software needed Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:13:54 +0900 Lines: 39 Message-ID: <38leelF5o1f6rU1@individual.net> References: <4225626a_1@127.0.0.1> X-Trace: individual.net 6AGNgQTwR7naMpE92QMoVQakcpktesL7c6G3yq8uX30Id/FrKm X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:25850 "Murgi" wrote in message news:4225626a_1@127.0.0.1... > > I am looking for a character counting program that can handle various > Microsoft > formats (especially Powerpoint, PDF and Excel). The most appealing > software > was gTotal Assistanth by Surefire Software since it promises to find > words > and lines not counted by Microsoft Office. This includes text contained in > text boxes, text in Excel worksheets, text in headers or footers, etc.). > > I have tried the trial version a bit, but right now I am lacking test > files > to verify what the company promises. However, it does not count the spaces > between words. My clients pay per 1000 text bytesc which means that I > would > roughly lose 10%. There is no problem with counting in MS Word since the > characters with and without spaces are displayed. > Is there any program that can do it all? If not, Ifll have to multiply > the > final count with a predetermined factor. > > Can anybody please recommend a usable counting software that can do > accurate > counting for customer estimations? > This refers to Latin-based languages, but I also need to count Japanese > text. > Any ideas? > http://www.practiline.com/ was the second hit on a Google of "text counting software" seems to do pretty much what you want. Couldn't be arsed to see if it dealt with Japanese characters, sorry... -- jonathan