Statistics Mismatch

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Attached is a sample for file for which the Statistics extracted by Aspose.Word is different to what is shown by MS Word, through the Advanced Properties. Following is the summary:

Aspose derived values As seen from advanced properties in Word
No Of Characters 129 59
No Of Characters With Spaces 150 66
No Of Lines 1 9
No Of Paragraphs 1 4
No Of Words 22 13

Could anyone explain the reason for parity. We’ve noticed that for files that have Unicode data, the parity is higher.
Thanks.

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Hi

Thanks for your inquiry. Aspose.Words does not update statistics information, it just returns values stored in the document. Here are values of document properties stored in the document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Properties xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/extended-properties" xmlns:vt="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/docPropsVTypes">
	<Template>Normal.dotm</Template>
	<TotalTime>49</TotalTime>
	<Pages>4</Pages>
	<Words>22</Words>
	<Characters>129</Characters>
	<Application>Microsoft Office Word</Application>
	<DocSecurity>0</DocSecurity>
	<Lines>1</Lines>
	<Paragraphs>1</Paragraphs>
	<ScaleCrop>false</ScaleCrop>
	<HeadingPairs>
		<vt:vector size="2" baseType="variant">
			<vt:variant>
				<vt:lpstr>Title</vt:lpstr>
			</vt:variant>
			<vt:variant>
				<vt:i4>1</vt:i4>
			</vt:variant>
		</vt:vector>
	</HeadingPairs>
	<TitlesOfParts>
		<vt:vector size="1" baseType="lpstr">
			<vt:lpstr>Title - مرحبا</vt:lpstr>
		</vt:vector>
	</TitlesOfParts>
	<Manager>Test Manager</Manager>
	<Company>Test Company</Company>
	<LinksUpToDate>false</LinksUpToDate>
	<CharactersWithSpaces>150</CharactersWithSpaces>
	<SharedDoc>false</SharedDoc>
	<HyperlinksChanged>false</HyperlinksChanged>
	<AppVersion>12.0000</AppVersion>
</Properties>

As you can see Aspose.Words returns values stored in the document.
You can update Characters, CharactersWithSpaces, Words and Paragraphs count by calling Document.UpdateWordCount method:
https://reference.aspose.com/words/net/aspose.words/document/updatewordcount/
Unfortunately, there is no way to update Lines count. Your request has been linked to the appropriate issue. You will be notified as soon as this feature will be supported. But I cannot promise you that this feature will be available sometime soon. This quite complex issue and not many customers asked about it yet.
Best regards,