PractiCount and Invoice 2.4

PractiCount and Invoice 2.4 is a  word and line counting and invoicing program, which can manage all these text statistics types so you can save great amounts of time.

This program is well-suitable for freelance translators, translation and localization agencies, medical transcriptionists, medical transcription agencies, legal transcriptionists and legal transcription agencies, writers, project managers and other professionals  who base their quotations and invoices on document text count (word count, line count, gross line count, character count, page count or other text count types, as well as hours/minutes).

PractiCount supports word count (line count, character count) in single files, folders and folders with subfolders. The program can calculate text also in text boxes, headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, annotations (comments), 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 and workbooks that are inserted in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents).
Full adjustment of word counting or any other count options to your needs. With several clicks you can make project estimations and customer-ready invoices that can be further customized to your liking. This software works under MS Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP and MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint 97, 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003. MS Word is needed for WordPerfect word count.

With the help of utility you can batch count:

• Words
• Characters with spaces
• Characters without spaces
• Lines (per set number of characters with/without spaces)
• Gross lines (nominal lines)
• Pages (per set number of characters with/without spaces, words, lines)
• Printed pages
• Word repetitions
• Japanese, Chinese characters, Korean Words
  

PractiCount can count text in the following formats:

• Microsoft Word (doc, rtf)
• Microsoft Excel (xls, csv)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt, pps)
• Corel Word Perfect (wpd)
• Adobe Acrobat (pdf)
• Adobe Framemaker (mif)
• HTML (htm, html, shtml)
• XML, SGML
• ASP, PHP
• Help files (cnt, hhc, hpj, hhk, hhp)
  

Major Features:

1. Supported applications and formats
   
   • Microsoft Word (doc, rtf)
   • Microsoft Excel (xls, csv)
   • Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt, pps)
   • Corel WordPerfect (wpd)
   • HTML (htm, html, shtml)
   • XML, SGML, PHP, ASP
   • Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
   • Adobe Framemaker (mif)
   • Help (cnt, hhc, hpj, hhk, hhp) files
2. Count types
   • Word count
   • Line count (customizable character number)
   • Page count (customizable character, word, line number)
   • Character count (characters with/without spaces)
   • Paragraph count (MS Word)
   • Gross line count (MS Word, Corel WordPerfect)
   • Printed page count
   • Hours
3. Count options
   • Single files
   • Folders
   • Folders with subfolders
   • Drag-and-drop files from Windows Explorer into PractiCount
   • Network support (in Business version)
   • Adding or counting files from the context menu of Windows Explorer (in Business version)
4. Client database
   • Client database
   • Import from csv and txt
   • Export to csv, txt, html, xls
   • Additional fields
   • Check duplicates
     
5. Document sections
   • Main text
   • Headers
   • Footers
   • Textboxes
   • Textboxes within headers/footers
   • Autoshapes
   • Footnotes
   • Endnotes
   • Annotations (comments)
   • Embedded (inserted) documents
   • Title tags (HTML)
   • Meta tags (HTML)
   • Alt tags (HTML)
   • Input/Select tags (HTML)
   • Text in Java Script and VBScript
6. Report options
   
   • Print
   • Export to Word
   • Export to Excel
   • Ability to export to existing files
   • Copy-&-paste into other applications
   • Importing the count log (in Business version)
   • Editable report 
7. Pricing by
   • Words
   • Lines
   • Pages
   • Characters with spaces
   • Characters without spaces
   • Gross lines
   • Printed pages
   • Hours
8. Invoicing options
   • Built-in client database
   • User data
   • Editable tax field
   • (VAT, GST etc.)
   • Discount option
   • Invoice export to MS Word
   • Payment due field
   • Comments column
   • Print invoice
9. Miscellaneous
   • Editable currency list
   • Currency converter
   • Separate pricing for different file types
   • Storing settings per client
   • Calculator
   • MS Word word count type
   • User-defined delimiters
   • Allow counting duplicate files
   • Ability to round line and page counts
   • Count text from clipboard 

Enhancements:

• Count in embedded and linked objects: Microsoft Word Documents, Microsoft Word Pictures, Microsoft PowerPoint  Presentations, Microsoft PowerPoint Slides, Microsoft Excel Worksheets that are inserted in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents
• XML, SGML, ASP, PHP support
• Ability to add PractiCount options in the Windows Explorer context menu
• Automatic unzip function
• Formatting count option (charging extra for making text bold, underlined etc.)
• Hours added to the pricing options
• Ability to send invoice by e-mail
• Option 'Count 2 or more successive spaces/tabs as 1 character'
• Option 'Count hard returns (Enter) as characters'
• Ability to choose between the following options for counting headers and footers: once per section, on each page
• Ability to count text that is in clipboard or in a selection with a hotkey
• New report editing options add new rows, edit cells, write your own figures, hide a column with a double-click on the column header etc.
• Bug with the admin>user registration under Windows 2000 and XP corrected
• Ability to invoice by totals
• Ability to view the count log (previous count results) by date, by client and combined.
• Ability to extract editing time from MS Word and PowerPoint documents
• Ability to exclude tabs from character count
• Ability to include/exclude in/from count TITLE tags in HTML files
• Ability to count text in JavaScript and VBScript in HTML files
• Ability to round the report/invoice total to a specified number of decimal places
• File creation date column is added to the report
• Minimizing into the system tray
• Automatic update module
• + about 50 minor corrections and improvements