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selvam214
selvam214
Inspiring
March 9, 2015
Question

Textual compare the documents

  • March 9, 2015
  • 2 replies
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Hi All,

We have the option to compare two indesing documents?

I need the textual compare, not the visual.

Thanks,

Selvam. V

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Kasyan Servetsky
Kasyan Servetsky
Legend
March 9, 2015

Maybe this is not exactly what you want but here's a script for comparing two documents. It shows even slight changes in text: for example a comma removed or a dot added.

selvam214
selvam214Author
Inspiring
March 10, 2015

Hi Uwe,

As I mentioned very first thread (about the visual), here is the visual compare script ‌‌ got from Kasyan by 1 year back. At the same time I found the textual compare also. Unfortunately, I missed out the link and codes also.

Anyway, thanks for the valuable discussion.

I will choose --> export word --> word compare options.

Uwe/Pickory/Kasyan: thanks for your effort.

Selva.

L
Community Expert
LaubenderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 9, 2015

How would you like to part contents from its visual representation?

This is no easy question, I think.

Consider two lines of text:

The second line is formatted with Capitals.

Now select the text frame and run the following script snippet:

alert(app.selection[0].parentStory.texts[0].contents);

Your result will be:

Text
Text

and not:

Text

TEXT

Uwe

selvam214
selvam214Author
Inspiring
March 9, 2015

Thanks Uwe,

But, I have 300 pages with one story. Once done the corrections, I must compare old document with new document (text correction updated document) and get the result.

If it possible to identify the text changes?

L
Community Expert
LaubenderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 9, 2015

You could try with Acrobat Pro's "Compare Document" feature.

Uwe

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