File comparison

Compare Suite has the most powerful file comparison function. It can compare files that have a common ancestor, and it can compare non-related documents.

File Comparison feature of Compare Suite allows to compare text files, compare Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, RTF (Rich Text Format), compare Excel spreadsheets, compare PDF, compare html Web Pages, plain text. You can also compare Zip archives, Rar archives and binary files. Read more about supported types.

Starting version 5.0:

• Office 2007 formats (docx and xlsx) are supported for comparison in Compare Suite.
• Open Office formats (odt, ods, odp, odg, odf, odb, odm, ott, oth, ots, otg, otp, sxw, sxc, sxg, sxi, sxd, sxm, stw, stc, std, sti) are supported for text comparison
• Adobe acrobat PDF files. The comparison of PDF files really fast with new converting algorithm.
• Syntax highlighting for assembler, pascal, c++ and other file formats.
• Software developers will find useful comparison of batch files (bat), cascading style sheet (css), DPR, PHP3, XML, XSLT files

You can download and try file comparison in Compare Suite right now. The evaluation version is fully-functional and doesn't have any functional limitation, so you can try it for free for 30-days. Download Compare Suite now

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Beyond Compare, Diff Doc, Compare It!, Compare, Compare Suite. Read more... 

Comparison methods

With Compare Suite you can compare texts char by char, word by word or by keyword. Read more about comparison methods to learn what the best comparison method for your very job is. Read more...

	Quick Start. Compare two files with Compare Suite. Read more...
	Compare documents by keywords. Read more...
	Compare two documents by keywords. Example. Read more...

Compare documents with common ancestor

Documents that are the same version of some other document can be compared using Compare Suite's char by char or word by word comparison. Read more... In this way the software is very helpful with version control tools.

Compare non-related documents

Documents that don't have a common ancestor cannot be compared char by char or word by word, because they have different structure. Use "by keywords" comparison for that purpose. Read more...

FAQ: If documents which I'm comparing don't have common structure? Read more...

Comparative Report

For file comparison only Standard report is available. Read more about available reports for file comparison. Read more...

Other features

Compare two folders feature allows to  find changes that were made in two folders and contained files. Read more...

Document audit of plain text files allows to accept or decline changes that were made. Read more...

Command line allows to automate comparison and integrate Compare Suite with other software products. Read more...