Word Count Modifier UI

A Graphical user interface for Word count modifier, a script used to reduce to displayed work count of a piece of text in programs such as Microsoft Word.

Tested programs

these results are for U+205F other charecters tend to be less consistent, showing up as spelling errors or not working.

Word - Windows: ✅

Word - MacOS: ✅ (limited testing)

Word - Web: ❎ (I don't think the charecters even paste)

Onlyoffice Desktop Editors: ❎ (Shows up with red underline but does affect the word count correctly)

Turnitin: ✅ (Works fine from the limited testing I'm able to do)

Qlearn/Canvas Based Sites: ✅

LibreOffice - Linux: ❎

Building (On Linux)

Refer to the windows branch for information on building the windows version of the script

Dependencies

libadwaita V-1.5

gtk4 V-4.12

clipboard V0.5.0

cargo build

Additional notes for building for/on windows

Known Issues

reduction algorithms don't make use of floats reducing accuracy on larger pieces of text

under seemingly random circumstances the code will return an unchanged word count or a word count of 0