Correct word-count of a LaTeX document

Question

I\'m currently searching for an application or a script that does a correct word count for a LaTeX document.

Up till now, I have only encountered script

Answer 1

To add to @aioobe,

If you use pdflatex, just do

pdftops file.pdf
ps2ascii file.ps|wc -w

I compared this count to the count in Microsoft Word in a 1599 word document (according to Word). pdftotext produced a text with 1700+ words. texcount did not include the references and produced 1088 words. ps2ascii returned 1603 words. 4 more than in Word.

I say that's a pretty good count. I am not sure where's the 4 word difference, though. :)