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Is there any Java API available to compare two microsoft word documents?

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posted 17 years ago

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I am looking for a Java API which can compare two microsoft word documents.

We are using Linux server so we can't install Microsoft Word in it.

We want to compare two document and what ever things are not common that we have to highlight with some color or any other way ... So I thing we have to merge both document and highlight content which are not common.

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posted 5 years ago

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// Create instance of GroupDocs.Comparison.Comparer and call method
Comparer comparison = new Comparer();
ICompareResult result = comparison.compare("D://source.pdf", "D://target.pdf", new ComparisonSettings());
result.saveDocument(Utilities.outputFileName(".pdf"));

refer : GroupDocs : - https://products.groupdocs.com/comparison/java

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posted 5 years ago

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Bihag Raval wrote:
We are using Linux server so we can't install Microsoft Word in it.

No, but LibreOffice can import documents in Microsoft Word and .docx formats.

The problem with getting rid of the "undesirables" is that sooner or later someone will decide that YOU are an undesirable.

Tim Holloway

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posted 5 years ago

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Tim Holloway wrote:

Bihag Raval wrote:
We are using Linux server so we can't install Microsoft Word in it.

No, but LibreOffice can import documents in Microsoft Word and .docx formats.

Well, actually, you could install Wine and you should be able to run Word under Wine, subject to Microsoft licensing restrictions. But unless you need eactly what MS-Word would give you, using LibreOffice would be much simpler.

The problem with getting rid of the "undesirables" is that sooner or later someone will decide that YOU are an undesirable.

Stephan van Hulst

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Aspose Words has a very rich API for all kinds of Word document manipulations. It's not free, but it's very powerful.

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Apache POI has also made great strides in its docx handling, and it is free. Of course, this post is more than a decade old, so the point is highly likely to be moot.

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Have we just been Astroturfed?

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Jack Du

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posted 4 years ago

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Try Spire.Doc for Java. Here is the sample code snippet for your reference.