TruCounter

TruCounter was written in 1997 to fill the need for a line counter, particularly for medical transcriptionists, that could handle all versions of DOS and Windows WordPerfect® by WordPerfect Corporation, Novell, and Corel after and including version 5.0 for DOS. The majority of SOHO medical transcriptionists bill "by the line" and yet, at this time, most line counting utilities had not bridged the gap between DOS and Windows. In general, utilities supported one or the other. Furthermore, I discovered that many of the utilities that local transcriptionists were using were miscounting and in many cases were costing these small businesses a great deal of money.

Because of my insistance that TruCounter remain a utility fully independant of the applications it supports with results the same regardless of the specifications of the system it is being run on, I was never able to include Microsoft Word support. This is because Microsoft does not release the binary file format of its document types. Furthermore, because of certain technical decisions by Microsoft, soft line-breaks are not stored in the files and therefore it is impossible to get identical results on multiple systems for the same file.

TruCounter is a commercial application that I sell to local businesses. I have no plans, currently, to expand sales of TruCounter outside of the local community.