Compare content match percentage between documents.

[Guest]

Hello,
I have a following scenario:
I have multiple document types like doc, html, text and so on. Out of these
documents one word document is prepared by referring to them.
Now, I want to compare this final document with all the source documents
referred and want to know how much percentage of the content has been
referred from the source documents.

I tried to use the "Compare and Merge Documents" ability of MS Word, but it
only compares the two documents at one time, and also it does not give me the
result in percentage, that what percentage amount has been referred from the
source documents to make up the final document.

I tried to find some file merger utility that can extract text from various
file types(doc, html, txt etc) and make it a final one source document with
all the text in it, but couldn't find any

Would really appreciate, if someone could provide valuable inputs on how I
can compare my one Word document against multiple file types and come to know
the percentage of data referred from the source documents.

Thank You,
Saurabh Khanna.

 

[macropod]

Hi Saurabh,

There is no reliable way to do this after the fact. For starters, Word
cannot tell you whether any given string was copied from another document or
just happened to have been typed that way. Likewise, it couldn't tell which
was the source document if it found the same string in more than one
potential source.

When you are creating a document by copying and pasting material from other
applications that support OLE, or for which Word has the appropriate filers,
Word gives you the option (eg via Edit|Paste Special or Insert|Object) to
paste the material with a link back to the source. If you do that, it's
quite easy to identify the source later on, just by viewing the linking
field codes. This applies not only to text, but also to spreadsheets, images
and many other objects

Cheers