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Compare Suite is a feature-rich tool for comparing and auditing files and folders in all the most popular file formats.

Compare Suite is Versatile.

What can you do with it?

• Check your documents.  Compare Suite works with all of the most popular document formats: Microsoft Word, Rich Text Format (RTF), Adobe PDF, Open Office, HTML files, even Powerpoint presentations.
• Evaluate your spreadsheets.  Compare Suite works with files in Microsoft Excel and Comma-Separated-Value (CSV) formats.  It shows you which cells and rows are the same, which are different, and it calculates the difference.  If the value of a cell is 54 in one spreadsheet and 75 in another, Compare Suite will highlight that cell and show you the difference: 21.  If the cell shows two different dates, Compare Suite will calculate the difference in days.  It can even show the percentage growth from one spreadsheet to the other.
• Review and approve changes in your software development projects.  Compare Suite supports syntax highlighting in major programming languages, including C++, Java, PHP, Pascal, and more.  You can even compare your binary files.
• Inspect your images and multimedia files.  Compare Suite can compare two images, pixel by pixel, and show you every difference.  It can even compare the details stored in your files’ information tags.
• Compare whole folders at once.  Just choose any two folders, and Compare Suite can run a full analysis of all of the files in both folders.  If you like, you can synchronize your folders, confident that every file will match the original precisely.
• Analyze your archives.  Compare Suite can work with documents, spreadsheets, and other files compressed inside your ZIP files and RAR archives, as well.

Compare Suite is Flexible.

Once you’ve chosen your files, you can also choose how to compare them.

• Compare “by Keywords” to find similarities between unrelated documents.
• Compare drafts of the same document “word by word.”
• Or, compare “character by character”—perfect for software developers!

Compare Suite can also tell you the number of words in your documents, the number of changes between them, and more.  Set up a list of your interests, and Compare Suite will watch for these personal keywords in every document, drawing your attention straight to the information you’re most likely to want.

When you’re done, Compare Suite can generate an HTML report you can share with your team.  Choose a basic report that just contains the changes you found; or, choose an advanced report with all the details, including the original source documents.

You can even integrate Compare Suite with your favorite third-party tools, including Document Management and Version Control systems, using our simple command-line interface.

Compare Suite is Powerful.

All of these features are built in to the Standard edition of Compare Suite.

Compare Suite PRO includes all of these same features, plus even better support for teamwork and collaboration.

• Comment on the changes you found.  This way, you can provide feedback to the author of the document, or help your colleagues to understand the modifications you’ve made.
• Ignore certain words or lines of text during comparison.  For example, you can tell Compare Suite Pro not to consider the date stamp at the bottom of your document.
• Save your results as a separate file.  Then, you or your colleagues can refer back to those results later to better understand ongoing changes in your documents.
• Analyze remote files.  Compare Suite Pro allows you to compare files and folders on your computer, to material on another computer on your network, or even to data on your company’s FTP server.

Compare Suite is Affordable.

Many software developers, quality engineers, translators, copywriters, legal specialists, and other business professionals already recognize Compare Suite as a must-have tool for comparing and merging files and folders.

Now, you can try all of our features for yourself, absolutely free.

Just download the free trial, and use all the features of Compare Suite, absolutely free, for your first thirty days.  After that, you can upgrade to Compare Suite Standard or Compare Suite PRO.  Or, you can just keep using the basic features in our freeware edition, Compare Suite Light, for as long as you like.

To get started, just go to www.CompareSuite.com.

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The latest version of Compare Suite PRO supports COM interface that makes it easy to integration Compare Suite with 3-rd party tools.

Learn more about COM model in Compare Suite PRO:

1. Download Compare Suite PRO
2. Check COM folder in installation directory
3. In COM folder you will find COM server and example that shows how to use it

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We are using the features of Comparing Folders, Ignore Line option( not ignore by keywords), XML Comparing( XML is not Sorted but Compare Suite sorts it before comparing) and using command line calls. The file formats are PDF, XML, Text & CSV. We use Compare Suite in both stand alone mode and we call it as part of in integrated regression run to create automated reports.

Paul Geraci, Analyst Programmer, Friends First Holdings Ltd, Ireland

Regardless if you are a developer, Business Analyst or Business user Compare Suite has an intuitive interface. The Reports it generates are easy to use and are presented in a clear manner. Our company has expanded the use of Compare Suite to call it via the command line. This is enabling us to expand it use to integrated testing and analysis. This enables us to detect changes we expect to see in a concise clear manner within the reports. The way that can be used for multiple file types is also excellent. I would recommend this product.

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The comparison of files used in automated processes vs. the manually created files in order to validate the automation process.

Frank Duffy, Integration and Data Warehouse Manager, CommVault Systems, Inc., NJ, USA

I found it easy to use and clear in it’s presentation of differences. At one point I needed to compare three files and I was able to do that (as confusing as it was). This was the only product that I found that would let me visually perform this task.

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I use this software for comparing images and word files and it provides good output to me.

Rajnish Srivastava, Data processing, Hightech, Delhi, India

This product usually mean for me. It helps me a lot when i am dealing comparing to images or text files. Previously i do it manually and now it is so simple to compare two files in just a one click. I love the reporting feature also as it provide nice report with colors so it is real y easy to understand the report in a glance. It is also a good feature that this product provide different kind of reporting format like .doc, HTML etc.. GOOD PRODUCT.

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Comparing different documents with previous versions to ensure the documents are repopulating each week. This is one of our quality assurance measures.

Nykole Masters, Information Quality Analyst, AHS, Calgary, AB, Canada

Compare PDF definitely makes comparing PDF documents easier. The colour coding of the added, modified, or removed lines makes comparing multiple document quick and painless. The feature that allows you to compare more than two documents is also extremely beneficial because it also us to verify that the data in each of our products is truly refreshed. The similarity percentage indicator is another extremely handy tool. With one quick look, you can tell if the documents are different.

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Compare Suite Light helped to quickly analyze the two legal texts derived from two different sides for further signing.

Dmitry Baranov, Head of ATM service Department, Credit Bank of Moscow, Russia

Compare Suite Light is a convenient, fast and functional tool for the analysis of legal texts (contracts and supplemental agreements). Helps detect differences after edits of the counterparty, to minimize the probability of signing a contract in two different editions, and thus minimize the risk of signing agreements on unfavorable terms. Easy to use, easy to install. Export to file the comparison makes it easy and quick to make reports.

Great tool.  Thanks

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I plan to offer my customers a service to optimize usage of disk space that they rent in my datacenter. I hope to use your tool for this.

Yury Stepanov, ItFin, Russia

I can say that the Compare Suite Standard has sufficient functionality for most tasks of datcenter administrator. However there’s not enough documentation for Compare Suite Standard Edition for the results of comparison. It makes additional difficulties to integrate your product into a single software environment. It would be useful to have access to objects of automation (COM).

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Compare Suite features a handful of additional functions that complement document comparison process and make this file comparison tool easy to use and multi-functional. CS is widely used in programming, app source code in particular. Programmers often use comments right in source codes, using special syntax, for instance /* or // to open comment, and */ or // to close it. Upon compilation of code these comments are ignored. However, when codes with comments are compared, CS may regard them as differences. To avoid this situation, comments in source codes may be ignored.

Despite differences in comments files are identified as identical

The latest version of Compare Suite makes it possible to ignore comments in source codes, such as Delphi, PHP, Java, C# and C++. This feature is enabled and disabled in Ignore section of Options menu. As said above, comments are not meaningful since they are not parts of codes. In some cases, it is reasonable to compare comments too, for example, to review versions of comparison files and source codes in detail. Thus, depending on requirements of comparison, users may either enable or disable comments ignoring feature in Compare Suite. In the majority of instances, comments are not meaningful. It is important to load files with correct extensions that are currently supported by Compare Suite (Delphi, PHP, Java, C# and C++).

Ignore comments in source files

As known, Compare Suite also can recognize source codes of some programming languages and highlight those parts of text which are recognized as programming language code, for instance, HTML, C#, PHP. It is convenient to compare parts of codes and “normal texts” inside codes. Comments ignoring feature for source codes makes CS an efficient tool both for code comparison and team work in software development. It is not a secret that the best way to find bugs and errors in new code versions is to contrast them against older app codes. This ignoring feature works only for source codes, not ordinary texts.

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Very effective tool for assisting in the removal of disk space wasting files including image and document files.

Charles McIntosh, Service officer, Registers of Scotland, Edinburgh Scotland

This is a First rate well developed product, it is relatively easy to deploy and in terms of “getting to know” has been designed to encourage regular PC users to perform intuitively, it is fundamentally straightforward to use.The system also has well designated powerful features which can assist in advancing the organisation of the file/folder status within the structure of the users it system. There is also an attractive visual appeal and this engages use by the individual.

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We use your product to compare a library of program distributive with etalon archive copy of the same programs after each antivirus scan.

Yury Stepanov, IT Director, Itfin, Russia, Moscow

Your product have functional enough for our purposes. We use your product as a command-line as in GUI mode. Sometimes your product detects differences in identical files. Apparently this is due to the different attributes that Windows not considered significant. This feature of your product we use for tracking an unscheduled file access and improve security. I would like to be able to fine-tune the structure of the report on the comparison directory. Also I would like to be able to configure ERRORLEVEL value when using the command line, depending on the type of differences.

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