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Re: Tool for comparing sentences in two documents?
Subject:Re: Tool for comparing sentences in two documents? From:dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 09 Nov 2002 08:10:03 -0800
"Mark L. Levinson" wrote:
>
> Like Mike, "I'm reading between the lines, of course...
Not at all!
> ...are we talking about sentences
> that may have been taken from scattered places in Document A
> and scattered into entirely different places in Document B?
That's *exactly* what he's saying (in his second message), which is why I wrote yesterday that no out-of-the-box file comparison utility was going to suffice.
The solution I suggested isn't difficult to write, once he gets both files (PDF and Word) into a single format (probably Word or plain text).
> ...after
> encountering a patch where the files are completely different
> for a while, it will never locate identical material that
> appears later.
Close: After finding a patch where the files are identical, it won't find identical material in one file that appears *earlier* in the other.
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