Word processing documents are the most common way to draft contracts, agreements, papers, and many other official documents. If you need to compare and merge two Word documents, just like the track changes option of Microsoft Word, we can programmatically do it within our .NET applications. In this article, we will discuss how to compare two Word documents and highlight the identified differences using C#. Additionally, we will look at how to compare password-protected documents, accept and reject changes, and compare more than two documents with C# examples.
C# Diff Library for Comparing Text Files
The [GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET][1] is a C# library which allows you to compare documents and find differences. Compare and merge Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument, PDF, Text, HTML and [many other documents][2], retrieve a list of changes between source and target document(s), apply or reject changes and save results with GroupDocs.Comparison API. In addition to this, GroupDocs.Comparison can identify styling and formatting changes - like bold, italic, underlines, strikethroughs, font types, etc.
An Efficient Document Formats Comparison & Changes Tracking Solution by Anglo-Eastern
About Anglo-Eastern Ship Management Anglo-Eastern Ship Management Limited is a ship management company focusing on managing commercial ships. It helps ship owners (direct clients) to ensure ships documentation necessary for trading requirements, maintenance, voyages, staffing, regulatory conformities, legal requirement, and maintenance will be operationally sound. As a ship management, it is at our utmost concerns to operate at the port or at sea. This entails huge documentation such as safety manuals, crew documents, forms and reports to and from the ships to office and vice versa which requires tracking and analysis to meeting regulatory requirements and performance monitoring.
Strikeout Option and PNG, BMP Formats - introduced in GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET API v17.5.0
We are glad to announce another monthly release of GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET 17.5.0 API with Three new features like adding Strikeout option for deleted/style change in words format, also adding support for PNG, JPG and BMP file formats.This monthly release is adding Six improvements like “Improve comparison of Text & Imaging formats” and ” Add styles change detection for Comparison.Imaging (height, width)” along with fixes. Detailed information is listed below.
GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET MVC based Front-End Powered by GroupDocs.Total
The GroupDocs team is always motivated to provide extra ordinary solutions to its users, in this regard we are glad to announce the front-end sample project for the ASP.NET MVC developers for GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET API. Although GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET and GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET APIs have been used to develop this UI Example, but mainly the purpose for this release is to empower the developers to write their own document comparison front-end using GroupDocs.
Compare Shapes and Watermark Text Style With GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET API v16.12.0
We are excited to announce another monthly release of GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET 16.12.0 API new features, Improvements and fixes are introduced in this release. Major changes are done for Spreadsheet and PDF document formats. This monthly release is also introduced enhanced Support for Visual Basic Scripts handling and detection of shapes for Spreadsheet format and watermark text style for PDF document format.In this monthly release 2 new feature are introduced along with 4 improvements and 2 Bug fixes.