PractiCount and Invoice is a powerful text counting and invoicing program for freelance translators, translation and localization agencies, legal and medical 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.

Limitations:

· 15 day trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Multi-language interface support
· Support of double-byte languages such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean
· Support of new file formats - .MIF (Adobe FrameMaker) and help (CNT, HHC,HPJ, HHK, HHP) files
· Direct count of PDF files - no Adobe software required
· Report export into 8 different formats (DOC, XLS, HTML, RTF, PDF etc.)
· Export of invoice to PDF
· PDF to TXT file conversion
· Detailed report view - shows the amount of text in each document section
· Additional tools: word frequency count module, integrated Match Calculator (CAT pricing calculator), offline currency converter
· Calculating CRC checksums for counted files
· Ability to count revisions in Word documents (inserted or deleted text in the revised document (track changes))
· Ability to add custom file formats
· A lot of other small changes, improvements and bug fixes