Text comparison utility

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Published on 2010-06-03T18:35:47Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 18:45 UTC
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I know this has been asked before...but I have a spin as I have been trying out varying free software offerings. I want to rid out department of DiffDoc the problem is that I am having trouble locating something that will do what we need. WinMerge has been the latest attempt...

The problem is simple. One Word doc...one PDF with a portion of it containing the text to be compared against.

Compare them and be done. Raw text, ignore whitespace, ignore carriage returns, etc...

Just compare the text and give me the results in some sort of report.

NOTE: Have tried ExamDiff, kdiff3, Tortoise, and a few others...

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