Microsoft Word provides a real-time word counter that counts the number of words in a document when you type. Beyond that, Microsoft Word also counts the number of pages, paragraphs and characters with or without spaces. In this article, you will learn how to programmatically count the number of words or characters in an existing Word document using Spire.Doc for Java.

Install Spire.Doc for Java

First of all, you're required to add the Spire.Doc.jar file as a dependency in your Java program. The JAR file can be downloaded from this link. If you use Maven, you can easily import the JAR file in your application by adding the following code to your project's pom.xml file.

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>com.e-iceblue</id>
        <name>e-iceblue</name>
        <url>https://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>e-iceblue</groupId>
        <artifactId>spire.doc</artifactId>
        <version>12.4.6</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>
    

Count the Number of Words in a Word Document

The detailed steps are as follows:

• Create a Document instance.
• Load a sample Word document using Document.loadFromFile() method.
• Count the number of words using Document.getBuiltinDocumentProperties().getWordCount() method.
• Count the number of characters without spaces using Document.getBuiltinDocumentProperties().getCharCount() method.
• Count the number of characters with spaces using Document.getBuiltinDocumentProperties().getCharCountWithSpace() method.

import com.spire.doc.*;
public class countWordsNumber {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Create a Document instance
        Document document = new Document();

        //Load a sample Word document
        document.loadFromFile("Demo.docx");

        //Count the number of words
        System.out.println("WordCount: " + document.getBuiltinDocumentProperties().getWordCount());

        //Count the number of characters without spaces
        System.out.println("CharCount: " + document.getBuiltinDocumentProperties().getCharCount());

        //Count the number of characters with spaces
        System.out.println("CharCountWithSpace: " + document.getBuiltinDocumentProperties().getCharCountWithSpace());
    }
}

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