Research tools · LaTeX & Overleaf

Word counter

Your writing, without the markup.

Load your Overleaf project or paste LaTeX. Strip out commands, comments and math, then count the text that remains.

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1. Add your LaTeX

Drop an Overleaf ZIP or .tex files here

In Overleaf, download your project as a source ZIP to include all chapters.

UTF-8 .tex · ZIP up to 30 MB · 200 source files / 5 MB of source text

Paste a complete document or a fragment. Counts update as you type. Editing a loaded file updates this local copy.

2. Count the plain text

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0characters, including spaces
What gets counted?

Kept

Abstract and body text, section headings, captions, footnotes, list items and table cells. Formatting is removed: \section{Introduction} becomes “Introduction”.

Removed

Authors, affiliations, contact details, titles, keywords and publication metadata—even after the document begins. Also comments, the preamble, commands and definitions, math, citations, references, URLs, graphics paths, bibliography entries, code and figure accessibility descriptions.

Check the preview

Custom macros are not expanded; their definitions and declared arguments are omitted. Unknown commands lose their name but keep braced text. Conditional branches and unusual packages may need manual review.

This is a plain-text estimate, not a TeX compiler or an exact reproduction of Overleaf’s word count. Author and publication declarations are excluded wherever they appear; abstracts and figure captions are included. Words and numbers count; hyphenated words and contractions count as one. Character counts include spaces and line breaks. Nothing is executed, and no external files are fetched.