Observed arrival · 2026-08-25
A Token Calculator That Reads PDFs, DOCX Files, and Images
TokenCalculator.dev counts text, document, code, data, and image tokens while comparing estimated API costs across OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek.
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The calculator combines prompt text with locally extracted content from supported documents, then presents separate provider views for token counts, context fit, and input-cost estimates. Its methods distinguish exact OpenAI o200k_base BPE tokenization from provider-calibrated UTF-8 projections for other providers. Inputs can include text-based PDFs, DOCX files, code, structured data, and common image formats, with a stated 12 MB per-file limit; scanned PDFs are rejected without OCR.
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