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Count Words and Occurrences of Each Word in a Document using C#

Usman Aziz on October 18, 2019

Repetition of data can diminish the worth of the content. Working as a writer, you must follow DRY (don’t repeat yourself) principle. The statistic...
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Fernando Crozetta

Interesting article..
But, since the package used is paid, I was wondering if there was an open source library to replace the one that you are using... I think docX will do the work, no?

Is there any reason why you chose this particular library?

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Usman Aziz • Edited

Hi Fernando,

The reason for using this API was it supports a variety of document formats of PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Ebook, Markup, and Emails. Whereas, DocX library seems to support the manipulation of Word formats only.

The good thing about GroupDocs API is that you can try it free using a temporary license: purchase.groupdocs.com/temporary-l....