Free Online PDF Text Statistics Analyzer, Word and Character Count
Count the text in a PDF without uploading it. Words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, averages and reading time are worked out together, with the most used words listed and every page shown separately so pages that are really scans stand out.
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How to Analyse the Text in a PDF
Three steps, and the file never leaves your computer.
Drop the PDF in. It is read where it already is; nothing is uploaded.
Choose how many words to list and a reading speed, then press Analyse.
Read the numbers, copy the summary, or download the whole word list as a CSV.
What It Does, and What It Cannot Do
How the counting works, and where a PDF makes it awkward.
Key Features & Capabilities
Designed for speed, privacy, and precision.
The document is read by your own browser. A manuscript, a thesis or a contract under embargo stays exactly where it is.
Words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs and averages per page, all in one place.
An estimate at the speed you choose, plus a separate figure for reading aloud, which is what presenters actually need.
A frequency list with the very common words optionally left out, so what is left tells you something about the document.
Every page with its own word count, and any page with no text at all named plainly as a scan or an image.
The full word list downloads as a CSV, ready for a spreadsheet, without the file ever leaving the machine.
About the PDF Text Statistics Analyzer
This tool reads the text out of a PDF and counts it: words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, averages for each page, and an estimate of how long the document takes to read or to read aloud. It also lists the words that appear most often, which says more about a document than any single number does.
PDFs make counting harder than it sounds. A PDF does not store words or even lines; it stores fragments of text placed at coordinates on a page. Putting those fragments back into sentences is guesswork, and different tools guess differently. The counting here is deliberately plain and explained on the page, so the number means something you can check rather than something you have to trust.
The page by page table is the part people end up using most. It shows where the words actually are, and it names any page with no text at all. That is normally the moment somebody discovers that a third of the document they were sent is a scan, which no amount of counting will fix and which an OCR tool will.
Everything runs in your browser. There is no upload, no queue and no account, so a thesis, a manuscript or a contract under embargo can be measured without it travelling anywhere.
Frequently Asked Questions
Word counts, reading time, scanned pages and what the numbers mean.