Anybody know of any good line counting software that is free to download?

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• Anybody know of any good line counting software that is free to download? - TJ
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be able to give you a license # so you don't need to purchase it. 

I don't know if you can convert Meditech, but you can convert other Expanders to be used in ShortHand. 

I work for TT and we had a problem with the ichart which counts our lines but I would just wait a couple of hours or until the next morning to get my count and then mark it.  It was always available in time for the end of the pay period.  Transtech is a great company to work for and yes management is great.  They also let us know whenever there were issues with the system and we knew that we would need to wait.  I've been there long enough now to kind of get a feel for the number of lines I have for what I've typed.  I'm typing on the TransNet platform now.  I was on PowerScribe when I started but like this system much better.  So far, there's been no real problem with availability of work.  Can't complain!    

You know, sometimes I find these posts comical and sometimes they just really tick me off.  Maybe because I have been doing this nearly a half century, I don't need a line counter to tell me if I'm being paid accurately.  I don't go wasting my time looking to see how many lines I've typed during the day or running my work through another line count program.  I KNOW approximately how many lines I have typed at any given time...I just KNOW and I am seldom off more than a few lines just with my head count.  There is no way I'm going to waste my valuable time worrying if I'm being cheated out of a line here or a line there.  Checking line counts takes time..........so does posting on these MT forums.

Let me say that if my in head count was off, I would know it and I would not work for a company where I  had to constantly worry if I was being cheated.  Maybe there is something to the old saying, it takes a thief to catch a thief. 

As for line counts varying, mine is varying at the moment also.  My primary account often runs out of work and I know exactly WHY it runs out of work although no one has actually told me.  Okay, I have a backup account (or several) and I can either jump on those and make the line count I want or I can sit around whining about not getting my primary account, which by now is a piece of cake for me.  The backup accounts have 50,000 physicians on their list, maybe not quite that many actually, but bunches.  It takes awhile to get familiar with all of them as it does to build my normals and expanders. 

Sometimes I have to laugh when I read these petty comments.  I think to myself, if they would get off this forum and actually WORK, they probably wouldn't have so much whining to do.

As I've said before, those who have nothing better to do than bash TT should just move along and leave the rest of us in our blissful ignorance.  I'm chuckling to myself right now because there are posts on this forum at this moment about 2 companies for whom I have worked.  I don't feel it necessary to post derogatory comments but sometimes I do hope that some of the people who love to beat up on Transtech actually go to work for them and learn what it's like to work for a bad (at least in my opinion) company.  Some people deserve it.

Now I'm off my soap box and going to type where I will actually make some money....yes, for TransTech.  They treat me fairly.  If they didn't, well, I was looking for a job when I found this one.

OSI question?

Have recently talked to an MT who just started at OSi within the past 3 months.  Line counting does not seem to jive with Word.  A great difference.  Word counting lists 100 lines, OSI counting of the same report lists 40 lines.  They claim they do not count spaces, which I find rather surprising, because the last time I checked, a space is a keystroke.

Any input?  Thanks.

If their version of Word is provided by Dictaphone, who also provides the line counting website, why aren't the two compatible?  We had some discrepancy between the two and instead of fixing it we got locked out of the lines typed this session feature of MS Word (which was helpful and is not available on the website.  Rather than fix it they disable it.  They're a little heavy handed.  Love it or leave it.   

Does anybody know of a free line counting program I could download?  Also, is anybody familiar with wtd. lines vs. lines in a line counting program?  I assume wtd. means weighted, and what does it mean?  Thanks.

If the line count in a particular platform, for example ExText, is compared to MS Word count where the total word count is divided by 65, shouldn't the count be about the same? 

Has anyone noticed changes in line counting.  I work in EXText.  As I recall, it used to be if I typed/edited 1600 lines (as counted by EXText), it would then show up as approximately 1400 lines in Ichart, losing about 200 lines.  Now I am showing approximately a loss of 225 in the above-listed scenario.  Maybe I am remembering incorrectly?? 

Anyone else notice any recent changes?

services, in fact I used one last week.   Most do have limits on how often you can use and how many pages though.  You obviously would have to scan pages into a document, but maybe she doesn't have a scanner either.

She could have mailed paperwork back. 

  I just had training for my new job.  I am very excited because the software is as good as I thought it was going to be.  You don't have a to use a mouse!!   You can use it, but there are control functions for everything, which is how I like it. 

I don't really need the ShortHand program I ordered because there is a very good shortcut program with it, but I don't know if my shortcuts for ShortHand will load onto it or not.  So I don't know if I'm going to try to use ShortHand or what, but I just want people to know there are still companies that use good, quick software that doesn't rely on the mouse.  It's my dream come true.  They also provided QLDB & Stedman's Medical Dictionary CDs.  My last in-house radiology job didn't even have a medical spellchecker.  Oy. 

I'm considering applying to a company that says they use a software called MedSoft..was wondering if anyone has any good or bad experience with this..ease of getting lines?  MT friendly? etc.. thanks

Umph!!!  I found a job with great accounts, but their software is clunky, hard to manuever, and hard to make line count with.  Several times a day, I have to log out and log back in because the software freezes up.  No one in the tech department can do anything or unwilling to do anything.  I love this account, but it is virtually impossible to make any money.  I asked the tech department to at least work with me and my own macros and they never did.  They just told me I could not use my own macros without even trying to convert my IT.   Have anyone else had good accounts with clear dictators, but have the worst software program to work in.  What on earth am I going to do now!!!!!