How to Count total number of Words in PDF?

Is there a javascript (or some other) function i can use to count the number of words on a web page?

• I don't want to count the words in a text box. I want to pass an http reference and return the number of words on the page.

• Answer:

  I can't think of an easy way to do it using javascript, but if you can use a server side script it shouldn't be too difficult. In PHP it would be: $string = "a lot of text, the content of your page or whatever"; $string = striptags( $string );//remove any html tags that would throw this off $string = preg_replace("/\w+/", " ", $string);//change all white space characters, or groups of white space to one space $string = trim($string);//remove any leading or trailing white space $array = explode(" ",$string);//change the string to an array broken on spaces $wordCount = count($array);