Plain text from LaTeX

[Roger Gawley]

We have a demand to word-count LaTeX documents. Leaving aside issues like
just what is a word, we have several thoughts involving such routes as
dvitype of latex2html.

Does anyone have or know of either a program to count the word in a latex
document or (even better) a program to extract a plain text representation
from a dvi file?

Roger Gawley
IT Service
Durham University