freebudget

freebudget is a program designed primarily for professional translators, writers, transcriptionists and other language professionals who estimate their work against the word/lines/character counting of the documents they handle. freebudget offers: Convenience. It allows you to select multiple individual files or all files within a folder (and any subfolders). It lets you specify individual pricing for words, lines, characters, pages or time and directly compare the results. Easy to install, easy to use and easy to distribute. Now, it also offers a multilingual interface that can be easily localized or adapted. Authoritative results. freebudget is the leading word count tool in the language industry. It is currently being used by thousands of language professionals all over the world and has become a 'de facto' standard. In case of dispute, you and your customers can always share a reliable analysis platform. Audit file. In comply with the GMX (GILT metrics Exchange) recommendations, freebudget is the first tool to implement an audit file that contains all extracted text segments for your review. Accuracy. freebudget uses the exclusive WebBudget's SmartCount? algorithm, the unsurpassed extraction technology to handle word delimiters and other special text strings. Please refer to the section SmartCount to learn more about how this feature works for you. Flexibility. Include (or exclude) text body, footnotes, annotations, headers, footers, annotations and text embedded in MSWord shapes in your statistics. Enable/disable SmartCount for word delimiters according to your project needs. Enable/disable full compatibility with MSWord counting criteria . Print or export results to tab delimited text files, Excel or HTML reports. Unique features. Correct analysis of documents in any language, including Asian languages. Built-in Unicode support. Calculation of internal repetitions -percentage of words in repeated segments- both per project and per individual file. Automatic estimate of the time needed to complete a project, according to your personal productivity parameters. Ability to change project parameters and display variances instantly, without reprocessing all project files. Save project parameters (profiles) to reuse them in the future. Save project statistics, including profile and relevant text segments (sessions) into a compact format to reuse or distribute without having to send the original files. Users can easily localize/adapt the program interface by editing a single text file. Extensible functionality through plugins. and much more you will discover soon...
Platforms supported:
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003

Languages supported:
hungarian, catalan, dutch, romanian