The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. Based on the PostScript language, each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, vector graphics, raster images and other information needed to display it.
Built-in word count tools
None
Word count process
OCR Word Count Engine parses characters from the file and provides exact character, line, and word count.
Word count difficulty level
Medium
Used in
Software documentation
How AnyCount make a Word Count, Character Count, Page Count and Line Count for PDF Files
Installation of Adobe Acrobat Reader for character count, line count, and word count in PDF documents is no longer necessary. AnyCount can perform text counts in PDFs in a self-sufficient way.