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I am using overleaf but word count option in it does not include references, footnotes, and some other counts. How can I count words inclusive of title, authors’ names/info, abstract, body (introduction to conclusion), figures, tables, captions, footnotes, acknowledgments, references, authors’ bios, etc. (everything). Though I have seen a couple of solutions latex word count for dummies. Also, I have tried online word counters but they don't consider some of the things. I have tried Turnitin as well. At the end, I feel every tool gives me a different count. I am looking for a simple all-in-one solution that can count everything I mentioned above and that I can embed within my latex code. I hope to get a positive reply.

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    [Disclaimer: I'm a support personnel at Overleaf.] Overleaf's "word count" uses the texcount utility. There are a number of ways to customise texcount: you can find more information here or texcount's own documentation. – imnothere Dec 31 '19 at 06:28
  • I do not think that it is possible. See my answer to your referenced solution. Is a figure/table one word or the summation of all the words within it? Is a hyphenated name (say Kelly-Anne) one word or two? Do footnote markers count? See x11.tex for a problematic test case. – Peter Wilson Dec 31 '19 at 18:36
  • I need to follow guidelines by a research magazine that is why I asked this question (why to downvote I am sure it may help some researchers anyways). @LianTzeLim thank you for providing me the link. I have already used it but it does not count the contents within the table. For crosscheck, I save file as text and open in word document. – user3582228 Jan 01 '20 at 04:56
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    See perhaps https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37777/226 for getting texcount to include stuff in tabulars? – imnothere Jan 02 '20 at 06:32
  • Thank you so much LianTze Lim. I will consider it to find out the word count in tables. – user3582228 Jan 03 '20 at 01:48

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After checking various word count tools and LaTeX code, I realize that the most convenient word count is through word count option in Word. I simply paste text from PDF (we can also use save as option) to MS Word. It even counts text within figures and besides other things.

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    When I copy, many unexpected things can be copied as well such as word/characters in tables/figures. Of course, we can do so by manually copy only texts. However, it is not easy for long text with many tables/figures. – TrungDung Aug 22 '22 at 08:36