BTW, I may have found some of the tools to make this happen. These are all 
Unix/Linux tools but that’s good because I am using OSX:

PDF
Count the number of words in a PDF file
http://superuser.com/questions/221359/count-the-number-of-words-in-a-pdf-file 
<http://superuser.com/questions/221359/count-the-number-of-words-in-a-pdf-file>

Word
Convert Word to txt
http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/ 
<http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/>
Count words in a text file
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80017/how-to-count-total-number-of-words-in-a-file
 
<http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80017/how-to-count-total-number-of-words-in-a-file>


> On 16 Jul 2015, at 10:43 am, Wayne Irvine <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I’m doing some work for a publisher and they require word counts for 
> submitted documents in Ms Word and PDF format. Has anyone done any work with 
> this sort of thing?
>
> Wayne Irvine
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