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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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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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We use Compare Suite to compare versions or upgrades of my reports, to identify corrections, errors etc. in the document made by my colleagues.

Bedrich Weber, Researcher, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia

Firstly I’d like to emphasize that:
1. I have only a short time experience with the free “Light” version.
2. I’m seriously visually impaired (using screen enlargement) but I’ve found the “Light” version very helpful and therefore a “Standard” version seems to be very promising.

I’ve found “Light” version very easy to use (simply “plug and play”) without careful reading a Manual. Obviously more complex “Standard” version would require more careful manual reading to use all available possibilities. Identification of differences between texts was easy and fast even for me as a visually impaired due to perfect highlighting. It was helpful also to discover minor e.g. random typing errors when upgrading a document.

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Business professional: Terry Bennett, Rusted Works Org., Canada

Compare Suite is useful application:

Comparing various Word, PDF, HTML documents for differences in versions. I also have a few apps that require a comparison tool to be used to tell differences between document versions.

It proves to be a very useful application when I am looking through hundreds of documents that can span many months or even years of age. Compare Suite makes the work all that much easier and much more efficient and neat. I can’t imagine there is another piece of software out there that can do what Compare suite does so excellently. I have really enjoyed having this app in my tool box. Thanks for the great software.

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Comparing of HTML and HTM pages is a more complex process in comparison of the same procedure for simple text document since HTML pages contain two types of information: HTML code and the text itself. User might be interested in both. Sometimes, it is necessary to contrast HTML pages to view differences in codes, while, for example, web content writers might use Compare Suite to compare text contained in HTML pages without copying and pasting this text in a document.

Comparison of HTML pages is easier than ever

Compare Suit users from now on enjoy two types of HTML comparison: basic comparison (it is necessary to save HTML pages to your local drive) and a new HTML comparison feature which contrasts web pages just as they appear on the web, i.e. not as collection of images and code entities. Thus, HTML pages are displayed just as they are displayed in a web browser. Compare Suite uses traditional ways to highlight changes – various color schemes. Besides, it is possible to analyze changes in Preview mode or in DOM tree. The latter option is great if a user wants to review HTML code.

The new HTML comparison feature is quite helpful since sometime it is easier to look at web pages as they appear online, but not analyze code and text in between the line. However, IT savvy users may still compare codes by switching to DOM tree where all tags and HTML code is structured. Those who are interested in traditional HTML comparison may use Compare Source feature (bottom right button).

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Since various users are interested in different changes in documents and folders, they tend to use different comparison methods. For instance, one might need to see only major differences between documents or check out similarity degree. Often, users need to look at the slightest changes, even broken lines. However, in most cases it does not really matter if the words are located in a different line as compared to the source document. In other words, if the only difference two or three compared documents have is a broken line, comparison by broken line will view files as identical. It is very convenient for comparison of very similar or identical document since Compare Suit will not highlight undesired changes which might be totally unimportant for a user.

Avoid undesired indication of changes by applying comparison by broken lines

Comparison by broken lines is integrated in new Compare Suite version as a separate comparison method. So, to be able to compare documents by this principle, choose relevant option from comparison method box in the left upper corner. If documents have no differences but broken lines they will be identified as identical which may simplify comparison task for lots of CS users.

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Comparison of several documents or even bulk comparison may be quite problematic and inconvenient especially if the ancestor document or folder is to be contrasted with derived files or directories. The traditional two way comparison is of course rather effective with Compare Suite owing to a great number of features and functions. However, in some cases 2-way comparison is not enough. As stated above, the best option to compare three documents or folders is to apply 3-way comparison method. In terms of basic contrasting principles it does not differ from comparison two documents or folders – the same visual comparison is applied, although software user will have 3 docs or folders in the dashboard.

Enjoy the new 3 way comparison feature

3-way comparison is perfect to contrast, for instance, two versions of a contract with an original agreement version. If the 2-way comparison method implies individual contrasting of each version with the original, the newer method makes things easier since users may contrast the two versions with one another as well as see differences with the ancestor document.

Traditionally, it is possible to merge documents and folders, i.e. to apply differences, which is very convenient if a huge number of docs are to be revised. The 3 way comparison methods keeps all features of two-way contrasting. For example, it is possible to compare selected parts of text, contrast files and directories located at remote ftp folders, use syntax highlighting (very beneficial for programmers) apply different comparison methods, like char by char or word by word etc.

Who will benefit from introduction of a 3 way comparison? Basically, all users who frequently compare multiple files with the ancestor doc will find this new feature helpful. This comparison type might be effectively used in merging of folders to integrate whole parts of apps source codes. Traditionally, 3 way comparison is perfect for version control tools and cms applications.

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