diff --git a/texprlcount.pl b/texprlcount.pl
index f5b397a..80838f8 100755
--- a/texprlcount.pl
+++ b/texprlcount.pl
@@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ (&@)
 # We strip comments from the tex file
 $texfile =~ s/[^\\]%[^\n]*//g;
 
+# Strip appendix
+$texfile =~ s/\\appendix.*?\\end\{document\}/\\end\{document\}/sg;
+
 # We count the number of characters in the abstract
 my $abstract;
 ($abstract) = $texfile =~ /\\begin\{abstract\}(.*?)\\end\{abstract\}/s;