Character count from Acrobat

[tprithivirajan@adobeforums.com]

Hi all,

I am using the Acrobat 8 professional version. I am using various application to generate the pdf. My clients need the number of characters in the document. Some of the applications support to collect character count, some of not. But my final output for all those applications is/are "pdf". So i got approval from my client to collect the character count from the "pdf" document. I find in the "Acrobat 8 professional Help menu" to do this. But I cant able to find that. Is there any way to get the character count through the PDF? Please help me.

[try67]

PDF is really not a suitable format for counting characters, but if you must use it the best approach would be to write a script that goes over all the words in all pages and adds up the characters in each word. You need to be familiar with JavaScript to do that and don't expect the results to be too accurate.

[graffiti]

I'd just save them out as a text file then open in Word and do the count there.

[tprithivirajan@adobeforums.com]

Hi try67, grafiti

Thanxs for your reply. I am doing the same what graffiti do. I want to simplify this task. Is there any third part plugin available for this?

[try67]

Hi tprithivirajan, I don't know of any plugin that does this, but if you would like, I can develop such a script for you. Contact me by email for more info.