Compare Word in JavaScript

Our Node SDK is designed to give you the most accurate result, even though comparison is a complex function itself.

Sometimes you need to be sure that the document in the Word format has not been changed, and if it has, you need to find out what the difference is. Just use our Node diff tool to compare two Word files and find differences in whole words or single characters. Moreover, if only one character in a word has changed, this word will be marked as changed entirely.

Now you no longer need to spend time manually comparing Word documents, and you can quickly find even small changes and export such diffs to a document in a convenient format.

Try to compare Word documents

Check out how our solution to compare Word files using Node SDK works. To achieve this, load the Word files you want to compare and select the export file format – it will be automatically loaded after comparing.

Note that you need to accept all revisions in compared documents before calling the comparison method, as shown in our example:

Compare DOCX files using JavaScript and find the difference

Input files

Upload the compared file

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Upload the second file to compare

Output format

Select the target format from the list

import * as fs from "fs";

const wordsApi = new WordsApi("####-####-####-####-####", "##################");
const fileName1 = "Input1.docx";
const fileName2 = "Input2.docx";
const fileResult = "Output.docx";

//  Upload documents to cloud storage.
const firstDocumentContent = fs.createReadStream(fileName1);
const uploadFirstFileRequest = new model.UploadFileRequest({
    fileContent: firstDocumentContent,
    path: fileName1
});

wordsApi.uploadFile(uploadFirstFileRequest)
.then((uploadFirstFileRequestResult) => {
    // tslint:disable-next-line:no-console
    console.log("Result of UploadFirstFileRequest: ", uploadFirstFileRequestResult);
    const secondDocumentContent = fs.createReadStream(fileName2);
    const uploadSecondFileRequest = new model.UploadFileRequest({
        fileContent: secondDocumentContent,
        path: fileName2
    });
    wordsApi.uploadFile(uploadSecondFileRequest)
    .then((uploadSecondFileRequestResult) => {
        // tslint:disable-next-line:no-console
        console.log("Result of UploadSecondFileRequest: ", uploadSecondFileRequestResult);

		//  Compare documents in cloud.
        const compareDataOptions = new model.CompareData({
            author: "author",
            fileReference: model.FileReference.fromRemoteFilePath(fileName2)
        })
        const compareDocumentRequest = new model.CompareDocumentRequest({
            name: fileName1,
            compareData: compareDataOptions,
            destFileName: fileResult
        });
        wordsApi.compareDocument(compareDocumentRequest)
        .then((compareDocumentRequestResult) => {
            // tslint:disable-next-line:no-console
            console.log("Result of CompareDocumentRequest: ", compareDocumentRequestResult);

            //  Download result document from cloud storage.
            const downloadFileRequest = new model.DownloadFileRequest({
                path: fileResult
            });
            wordsApi.downloadFile(downloadFileRequest)
            .then((downloadFileRequestResult) => {
                // tslint:disable-next-line:no-console
                console.log("Result of DownloadFileRequest: ", downloadFileRequestResult);
                fs.writeFileSync(fileResult, downloadFileRequestResult.body);
            });
        });
    });
});

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How to Compare two text files

Install Aspose.Words Cloud for Node
Add a library reference (import the library) to your JavaScript project
Load two Word documents to compare
Call the compareDocument() method to compare Word docs
Download the result document from the cloud storage

JavaScript library to use compare

Install 'Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for Node.js' using NPM package manager. Run npm install asposewordscloud --save from the command line to install the SDK via the NPM package manager. As an alternative, you can manually clone Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for Node.js source code from GitHub and use it in your project. Please follow these Instructions to quickly get the necessary security credentials and access our REST API.