Count the words in a PDF
Upload a PDF to see how many words it contains. The count comes from the extracted text, so scanned pages are OCR'd before counting.
Verified 2026-08-05or drop a PDF here
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Up to 20 MB. Same extraction engine as the AI detector. Pro or Max required.
How the count is produced
There is no separate "word count" binary inside a PDF. The file is extracted to text, then words are split on whitespace. That is why a bad scan produces a bad count: the OCR failed, not the counter.
Headers, footers and repeated page furniture are included if they extract as text. For academic limits, skim the extract and trim boilerplate before you treat the number as final.
Questions
- Will this match Word's word count?
- Usually close, not always identical. Different tools split hyphenation and headers differently.
- Can it count words in a scanned PDF?
- Yes, after OCR. Unreadable scans yield a low or empty count.
