How to Do Word Count in PDF Without Acrobat

word count in pdf without adobe acrobat

No content gets approved or goes online without some editing, revision, or review. With more people working online and digital content being created and posted daily, that content review process naturally happens digitally. This is why there are so many document reviewing tools online.

From grammar to spelling, there are tools for anything having to do with proofreading articles and drafts. There may be times in particular when you will want to count the words in a document to ensure its length fits your topic appropriately, meets your readers’ expectations, and that it will stand out in credibility to search engines like Google.

If you’re editing or reviewing a document or article, you may be dealing with a PDF document sent to you. This could be for proofreading a business brochure or perhaps an essay draft. Locking it down in PDF format ensures that you get the exact text the author put together. Doing a word count, though simple, is important to meeting length requirements.

So how do you do a word count in PDF? We know that PDF content is hard to interact with, but in this blog post, we cover a few tools that can help you do a word count for PDF.

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How to Set Slim PDF Reader as Your Default PDF Viewer

Set Slim PDF to always open PDF files by default

When working digitally with PDFs, you no doubt develop your own workflow and habits. From the files you open, to the tasks you perform to the software you use.

As a proficient computer user, you may be used to double-clicking a file and simply having it open as needed in the software you need instantly.

However, being able to do so first requires that you have your favorite software of choice set up to open the associated file format by default. If you don’t have a default program set up, you’re left to select the software you want to use each and every time. Fortunately, this is easy to fix.

For those of you who already use Slim PDF Reader and haven’t set it as a default yet, we’ll walk you through the process.

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How to Repair PDFs

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Digital files are always susceptible to corruption. PDF documents are no exception. When you try to access a broken or corrupted PDF, it won’t open in your PDF reader but will instead display an error message such as:

pdf opening error

PDF issues can be caused by various reasons such as partial downloading from the Web due to Internet connection failures, power failures and improper shutdowns, incorrect encoding, and virus attacks. PDF creation issues are another common reason for a PDF viewer to return an error message. You usually experience this when you’re trying to open a PDF file created in a non-Adobe environment in Acrobat Reader.

Thankfully, most PDFs will not be corrupted or broken beyond repair. There are some things your can try to repair your PDF files.

Read on to learn the most successful methods for getting access to you seemingly lost PDF data!

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SlimPDF: The Smallest PDF Viewer Available

As a company bent on providing PDF users with the best conversion solutions, we’ve gone one step further and developed another solution to your PDF woes.

Today we release SlimPDF, a PDF viewer with the smallest download size—and it’s available for free.

With the security troubles Adobe Reader has currently gone through, SlimPDF can offer you a great alternative on more than one level. For one thing, SlimPDF cuts down on the size without sacrificing the functionality.

SlimPDF

Where popular PDF viewers like Adobe Reader weigh in at just over 26 MB, SlimPDF is a mere 1.43 MB download you can easily fit onto a USB for use on any computer.

SlimPDF Comparison

Also, as anyone who’s handled a PDF before may know, the way a PDF is viewed can be a priority. In SlimPDF’s 1MB file size, you can get the same essential viewing features that let you interact with any PDF file.

SlimPDF toolbar

You can access your favourite zooming features for hard to read text or quickly hit the navigation buttons to skip to the pages you need to see in overly long PDF files.

SlimPDF navigation

Searching is also made easy right from the toolbar with the search arrows located by the search box, and you can either search backwards or forwards within the file.

SlimPDF Find

To boot, you can quickly check in on any updates or developments with the social media buttons in the right hand corner of the main toolbar.

If a free reader with a small download size and a clean GUI are your thing, check out SlimPDF here.