Scanned PDFs contain images of text, which makes word counting harder. Here is how to handle them.
Scanned PDFs store text as images, so there is no selectable text to count. You need OCR (optical character recognition) to extract the text.
Run the scanned PDF through OCR software to convert it to selectable text. Then you can use a word counter on the extracted text.
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