Word count

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I couldn't find this anywhere in the forums, but is there any way to get a "Word count" field in Directory Opus or plans to implement this? I'm a translator and its useful for me to be able to see at a glance how many words a relevant file type (mostly *.docx) contains.

Thanks,

Olly

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A script or shell extension could add such a column, but would need to have a way to calculate the data from a .docx file, which may not be easy. (Getting the plain-text out via the IFilter is probably the right approach, but I'm not sure it's possible from VBScript, so probably requires C++ code or similar to be written.)

Interestingly, Explorer has a Word Count column, but it seems unreliable. I saved a document with "This is a test file." and while Word itself reported it as having 5 words, Explorer reported 3 words. So hooking into that existing column seems a non-starter, unless you want it to ignore short words (I assume that's what it is doing).

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Hi Leo,

Thanks for your reply. That's interesting; I always assumed Explorer's Word Count reproduced Word's own count, but I did a quick comparison and I see you are right! If the count is not reasonably reliable (as much as one can be) then it is indeed no use to me.

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Try this to extract the content from your Word-Doc:

wrd = new ActiveXObject('Word.Application'); wrd_file = wrd.Documents.Open('test.docx'); wrd_file_content = wrd_file.Content; wrd_file.Close();

Now you have to count the words in string wrd_file_content
Maybe sth. like this will work (untested!):

[code]function countWords(myString) {

var count = 0;
var words = myString.split(' ');
for (i = 0; i < words.length ; i++) {
if (words[i] != '')
count += 1;
}

return count;

}[/code]

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Here you go, Column: Word Count for Microsoft Word documents.

Turned out to be quite complicated to get right, but it seems to work.