Choose one PDF file from your device or drag and drop it into the upload area.
Click Process Now to count words, characters, and sentences across the PDF.
Your word count report is ready.
Download the totals and per-page breakdown as JSON.
Upload a PDF, count words, characters, and sentences locally, then download a JSON report with totals and a per-page breakdown.
Need to know how many words are in a PDF? IronFreeTools' PDF Word Counter reads the document's text and reports word, character, and sentence counts directly in your browser.
Word counts matter for editing, translation quotes, billing, grading, and content audits. Getting per-page statistics as JSON makes the result easy to verify or pipe into another workflow.
Word counts are a common requirement for translators, editors, writers, students, and researchers. Pulling them straight from a PDF saves the time of copying text into a separate word processor and gives you a structured, page-level view of the document.
Upload a PDF and the tool uses pdf.js to read each page's text, then counts words, characters, and sentences. Results download as JSON with totals and a per-page breakdown. Developers building automated PDF analytics in .NET can explore IronPDF's text extraction APIs to build similar reports on the server.
PDF Word Counter reads the text layer of a PDF and reports the total number of words, characters (with and without spaces), and sentences, with a per-page breakdown.
The report downloads as a JSON file with totals and per-page statistics, so you can review or feed it into another tool.
No. The tool only reads text from the PDF and produces a separate JSON report. Your original document is not modified.
No. Word counting runs locally in your browser using pdf.js, so your PDF never leaves your device.
No. This tool counts text from the embedded text layer. Scanned image-only PDFs need OCR before words can be counted.
Words are counted by splitting the extracted text on whitespace, which matches the common word count convention used in word processors.
Sentence detection uses standard end-of-sentence punctuation. Counts are a useful estimate but may differ from a manual review for documents with unusual punctuation or formatting.
Encrypted or password-protected PDFs need to be unlocked before their text can be read and counted.
No. PDF Word Counter is free to use without sign-up, login, or installation.
Yes. You can count words in PDF files for free with no watermarks or limits.
Get total and per-page word, character, and sentence counts Export a structured JSON report Process files in your browser No account required Keep the original PDF unchanged.