PractiCount and Invoice

A text counting tool that helps translators to create invoices too.

This tool is a word counting and a line count tool for translators and transcriptionists. It helps them create invoices for their services based on the line and word count of their work as carried out. PractiCount and Invoice will let you count text in multiple files of various formats. This tool would be useful for freelance translators, translation and localization agencies, medical transcriptionists, medical transcription agencies, legal transcriptionists and legal transcription agencies, writers, project managers and other professionals who base their quotations and invoices on document text count (word count, line count, gross line count, character count, page count or other text count types, as well as hours/minutes). This tool keeps track of all such text statistics making your job so much easier.

This tool will be able to count text in formats such as Microsoft Word (doc, docx, rtf), Microsoft Excel (xls, xlsx, csv, Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt, pptx, pps). It can handle Corel Word Perfect (wpd), Adobe Acrobat (pdf), Adobe Framemaker (mif) too quite easily. It does handle HTML (htm, html, shtml), XML, SGML, ASP, PHP, Help files (cnt, hhc, hpj, hhk, hhp), OpenOffice (odp, ods, odp), words characters with spaces and without spaces. Lines (per set number of characters with/without spaces), Gross lines (nominal lines), Pages (per set number of characters with/without spaces, words, lines), etc. PractiCount supports word count (line count, character count) in single files, folders and folders with subfolders. The program can calculate text also in text boxes, headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, annotations (comments), embedded (inserted), linked objects and files in MS Office documents (Microsoft Word Documents, Microsoft Word Pictures, Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations, Microsoft PowerPoint Slides, Microsoft Excel Worksheets and workbooks that are inserted in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents).

PractiCount and Invoice is a powerful text counting and invoicing software for freelance translators, translation and localization agencies, medical and legal transcriptionists and transcription agencies, writers, project managers and other language professionals who base their quotations and invoices on volume of text processed. This tool can do a batch text count of multiple Word, PowerPoint, Excel, WordPerfect, HTML and PDF files in directories and subdirectories on drives. Customizable word, line, page, character count options enable setting the line and page parameters according to word or character number. Ability to count text in textboxes, headers, footers, foot- and endnotes, annotations and embedded (inserted), linked objects and files in MS Office documents (Microsoft Word Documents, Microsoft Word Pictures, Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations, Microsoft PowerPoint Slides, Microsoft Excel Worksheets missed in word count functions of MS Word and Corel WordPerfect. Ability to set a price per word, line, page, character, hour in any world currency. Includes a link to an online currency converter. Optional different pricing for different file types. Ability to set user-defined word delimiters for higher count accuracy. Count of text from the clipboard with a hotkey. Detailed reports can be printed or exported into Excel or Word files or copied-pasted into other applications. Built-in client database allows you to store individual settings for each client and generate invoices with a click. Automatical calculation of taxes, discounts, surcharges for invoicing. Invoices can be exported to rtf which enables further editing in other applications like MS Word, or e-mailed directly to the customer. MS Word is needed for WordPerfect word count. Adobe Acrobat 5.05 - 6.0 or free Acrobat Reader 5.1 required for word count in PDF. Supports File formats: DOC, RTF, XLS, PPT, PPS, WPD, TXT, CSV, HTM, XML, ASP, PDF. Automatically unzips ZIP files.