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What is the "best" word counting tool in your experience
Автор темы: Lightnlife
Lightnlife Боливия Local time: 15:12 испанский => английский + ...
Sep 29, 2015
Looking at purchasing a word counting software and would like to hear opinions regarding what translators feel is the best or better word counting tool from the ones that are available today.
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Vadim Kadyrov Украина Local time: 22:12 английский => русский + ...
FineCount
Sep 29, 2015
the best one.
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Reasons for differences among tools
Sep 29, 2015
While I don't have a recommendation for a "best" word counting tool, I have done some research (and released an open source tool) into what causes differences in words counts between different tools.
Common word count gray areas include: -Ellipses -Hyperlinks -Contractions -Hyphenated Words -Dates -Numbers -Numbered Lists -XML and HTML tags -Forward slash... See more
While I don't have a recommendation for a "best" word counting tool, I have done some research (and released an open source tool) into what causes differences in words counts between different tools.
Common word count gray areas include: -Ellipses -Hyperlinks -Contractions -Hyphenated Words -Dates -Numbers -Numbered Lists -XML and HTML tags -Forward slashes and backslashes -Punctuation -Headers -Footers -Hidden Text specific to Microsoft Word
For details on how common word count tools (Microsoft Word, Pages, wc(Unix)) handle these gray areas, please see these charts.
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Gerard de Noord Франция Local time: 21:12 Член ProZ.com c 2003 английский => голландский + ...
Count Anything
Sep 30, 2015
I've been using Count Anything for years now. It's free, fast and easy to use. It accepts many file formats, doesn't miss anything and doesn't try to be smarter than Microsoft Word, the tool most of my clients use to check my counts.
I've been using Count Anything for years now. It's free, fast and easy to use. It accepts many file formats, doesn't miss anything and doesn't try to be smarter than Microsoft Word, the tool most of my clients use to check my counts.
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