Every word counts - word, line, characters, pages counting software

（Edited by freelance Chinese translator li – English to Chinese or Chinese to English translation services）

Counting words, characters, lines, and pages is an everyday chore of professional translators, transcribers or writers. The task may be overwhelming when the number of files is large and the statistics provided by the native software is insufficient. Professionals have to cope with various document types, such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point, Adobe PDF, html or text files. Microsoft Word is the only software that provides statistics of the document, and very often this statistics is not sufficient to the end user. It also may be very troublesome to extract statistics for more then few files.

What is the solution to this problem? Luckily, there is Quickcount, a software that simplifies statistics extraction from many document types. It provides statistics for each file including word count, line count, page count, characters count and more. It allows the user to easily drag and drop folders or files, and to generate statistics reports in PDF, Word or text format. Moreover it saves the workspace, stores a database of clients and provides means to quickly generate estimates and invoices in PDF or Word format based on the statistics extracted from files.

Quickcount does not require Microsoft office to be installed on the computer and it is not using it to provide statistics. This speeds up the text processing and enables to view statistics of hundreds of files instantly.

You can download Quickcount at http://www.verbumsoft.com/products.aspx. There is a free trial version available. The product also is available to Translatorsbase.com and Directfreelance.com members at no charge.