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How to count Thai characters in a PDF file?
Thread poster: Jakub Wiszniewski
Jakub Wiszniewski
Jakub Wiszniewski
Thailand
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Oct 29, 2012

I need to count Thai characters from a PDF file. After some research on the Internet, I tried to use programs like CountAnything, Translator's Abacus, Freebudget 4 and few more but without success. Either word counts equals 0 or the file cannot be read...

Does anyone have any experience in this? How can it be done? Is there a way to convert PDF in Thai to Word so I could use character count option in Word's preferences?

Thanks for any suggestions and help.
 
Chosana Thanabhumi
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Abbyy FineReader Oct 30, 2012

You can try to convert the PDF to Word file by using Abbyy FineReader. It should work, but the result also depends on the quality of the original PDF file.
 
Dylan J Hartmann
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Manual Jun 27, 2013

Count the number of lines, average of 8 words per line.
 
Khwansuree DEROLLEPOT
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Have you tried TRADOS? Jun 6, 2014

I always use TRADOS to count characters, it's always right and you can use it as reference whentalking to the client.
 
Dylan J Hartmann
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What if it's a scanned PDF? Jun 6, 2014

Does anybody else have strategies for doing a word count on scanned PDFs?
 
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
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Thailand
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MS Word Jun 8, 2017

MS Word is the most reliable software for Thai I am handling.
For "dead texts PDF," I use OCR, copy and Paste to MS Word.
For "searchable PDF," I just copy and Paste to MS Word.
It is very handy for my.

Dr. Soonthon Lupkitaro Ph.D.
8 June 2017
 
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
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Update Jun 25

Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.) wrote:

MS Word is the most reliable software for Thai I am handling.
For "dead texts PDF," I use OCR, copy and Paste to MS Word.
For "searchable PDF," I just copy and Paste to MS Word.
It is very handy for my.



As a personal discovery now, I find that OCR of Foxit Phantom PDF 9.0 works well with special characters and grammar of the Thai language. It can save my time widely to count Thai characters.
 


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