This Python program extracts the LaTeX word count and equation count and several other counts such as floating element count from a LaTeX document set, using the Perl script texcount.

git clone https://github.com/scivision/texcounts.git
pip install -e .

Plot progress:

python texwcpost.py mydissertation.tex

Upload to your SFTP server:

python phdwc.py mydissertation.tex serverAddress username serverDirectory