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File comparative report 

 

Comparative report makes comparison of two files especially effective. You can easily bring comparison details to simple or advanced structured report. Comparative report is useful as collaboration mean and automation mean. 

 

Compare PDF reporting feature. Read more...

 

Reports structure

 

Report type: Standard report
Comparison type:  word by word 
 
Report structure:
  1. Summary
  2. Groups of interest
  3. Comparison statistics
  4. Comparison options
  5. Comparison details
  6. Legend
Sample report

 

 
Report type: standard report 
Comparison type:  char by char
 
Report structure:
  1. Summary
  2. Groups of interest
  3. Comparison statistics
  4. Comparison options
  5. Comparison details
  6. Legend
Sample report
Report type: standard report 
Comparison type:  by keywords
 
Report structure:
  1. Summary
  2. Comparison statistics
  3. Comparison options
  4. Groups of interest
  5. Common keywords
  6. Unique keywords in left file
  7. Unique keywords in right file
  8. Left file
  9. Right file
  10. Legend
Sample report

 

Files' report sections

You will find below the decoctions and samples of available report section for file comparison.

 

Section name:  Summary
Description:  This section contains summary information about compared files. In this section you will find the names of two compared files, their location, modification date and size.
Sample:
File Folder Last modified Size
Sample Compare Document 1_0.doc C:\Program Files\Compare PDF\Project1\Press Releases 06.04.2004 17:51:46 20,0 Kb
Sample Compare Document 1_0.doc C:\Program Files\Compare PDF\Project2\Press Releases 10.04.2004 11:07:36 20,0 Kb

 

 

Section name:  Groups of interest
Description:  This section contains information about groups of interest where compared documents belong. More information about how to setup groups of interest. Read more...
Sample:

For the left file

Group Words
Software Compare, compare
Common Document, document, management

For the right file

Group Words
Software Compare, compare
Common Document, document, management

 

 

Section name:  Comparison statistics
Description:  Comparison statistics section shows the number of added lines/characters/words (depends on type of comparison). The Similarity rate shows if two documents have many common keywords.
Sample:
Description Amount
Lines added 2
Lines deleted 4
Lines modified 1
Similarity, % 94

 

 

Section name:  Comparison options
Description:  This section shows what options were used when Compare PDF did comparison. 
Sample:
Option Value
Ignore leading spaces Not ignored
Ignore trailing spaces Not ignored
Ignore all spaces Not ignored
Ignore letter case Not ignored

 

 

Section name:  Comparison details
Description:  Comparison details section contains the information about found modifications. Compare PDF highlights words and lines with different colors. See color meaning in "Legend section".
Sample:
1 Sample Compare Document
2 This document aim to show how can Compare PDF be used with various document management systems. 
3 "By keywords" comparison feature highlights common and unique keywords, allowing to compare non-related files. 
4  
5 Word-by-word comparison compares files with a common ancestor. 
6  
7 Folder comparison function allows to compare two folders and files within it. 
8  
9 If you work with plain text, then you can edit compared documents, apply or decline changes. 
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11 Finally, you can bring comparison details to simple or advanced structured report.

 

 

Section name:  Legend
Description:  This section contains coloring information. By default blue color is for new (added) lines/characters/words, red is for deleted one, green for modified.
Sample:
Line changes
Added line Example of added line
Deleted line Example of deleted line
Modified line Example of modified line
 
Character (inline) changes
Added characters Some added characters
Deleted characters Some deleted characters

 

 

Section name:  Common keywords
Description:  This table appears in report when you do comparison by-keywords. It shows mostly used common (are in both - left and right texts) keywords.
Sample:
Keyword Frequency
in left file		 Frequency
in right file
files 4 9
text 1 8
documents 1 6
report 1 5

 

 

Section name:  Unique keywords in left and right file
Description:  This table appears in report when you do comparison by-keywords. It shows mostly used unique (are only in one of the texts) keywords.
Sample:
Keyword Frequency
document 6
Compare 5
PDF 4
comparison 4

 

 

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