Thread: Possible to get a word count in Calibre?
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Old 01-23-2016, 01:53 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
Whatever this is


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Same book 

EPUB - Count Pages    = 20,563 (20,886)
EPUB - Calibre Editor = 21,405 (20,793)
EPUB - Sigil          = 21,382 (20,753)

RTF/DOCX - Word       = 20,751 (20,749)

TXT - Notepad++       =        (20,751)
That's even more fun. While looking at how Count Pages did the counting, I forgot to look at what it counted. They are each counting different things.

Based on a little experimenting and reading calibre code:

- calibre editor counts book text, text in the alt and title attributes of tags, text in the metadata and in the title tags of each internal file.
- Sigil counts the book text and the title tags.
- Count Pages just counts the book text.

The other reason for the difference is of course what they consider to be a word. Based on the some DLLs included with Sigil, I think it uses the same ICU method that the calibre editor uses.
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