In Microsoft Word, the system automatically counts the number of pages and words in your document and displays them on the status bar at the bottom of the workspace. For almost every other file type, we use a CAT (Computer Assisted Translation) tool to analyze the files and generate the word count for us. For non-editable files (i.e. PDF, image file, scanned documents, etc) we would use an OCR software combined with manual count in order to provide an estimated word count.