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Thread poster: Jiřina Atanasi Ječná
Jiřina Atanasi Ječná
Jiřina Atanasi Ječná  Identity Verified
Czech Republic
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English to Czech
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Jun 6, 2023

Hello,

could somebody help me determining a .po word count, please?
Please don't mention, that I should subscribe to Poedit to see statistics

Thank you

Kind regards

Jirina
 
Recep Kurt
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Türkiye
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Possible solution from an old thread Jun 6, 2023

1. Download POedit

2. Open your .PO file and then go to File>Export as HTML.

3. Open the exported HTML file and copy all the text to translate.

4. Paste the text in a new Word document and count the words as yo... See more
1. Download POedit

2. Open your .PO file and then go to File>Export as HTML.

3. Open the exported HTML file and copy all the text to translate.

4. Paste the text in a new Word document and count the words as you would usually do

Reference: https://www.proz.com/forum/localization/160621-measuring_po_files_word_counts_etc.html ▲ Collapse
 
Samuel Murray
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Netherlands
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@Jiřina Jun 6, 2023

Jiřina Atanasi Ječná wrote:
Could somebody help me determining a .po word count, please?

Disfr can open PO files, and then you can export to a format that you can remove the source column from:
https://github.com/AlissaSabre/disfr

TranslateHouse (formerly the Translate Toolkit) has a commandline utility called pocount, which I believe can be used to do word counts of multiple files simultaneously. It requires a bit of computer literacy to use, though:
http://toolkit.translatehouse.org
https://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/translate-toolkit/en/latest/commands/pocount.html

Matecat can sometimes read and analyze PO files (Matecat is a free online CAT tool):
https://www.matecat.com

OmegaT is also a free CAT tool that can count words in most PO files, but you need to learn how to use OmegaT (it's not difficult at all, but it's less straight-forward than Matecat for this purpose).


[Edited at 2023-06-06 11:07 GMT]
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
CafeTran Espresso: Your Swiss Army Knife Jun 6, 2023

You can do that with CafeTran Espresso: www.cafetran.com
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(Unlicensed version will do the count.)
 
donalds (X)
donalds (X)
United States
Free PO file editor with words counter Jun 7, 2023

Just drop your .PO file on this page https://pofile.net/free-po-editor and it will count the words (or characters) for you.
 


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