Compare DOC in Python

Our Python 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 DOC format has not been changed, and if it has, you need to find out what the difference is. Just use our Python diff tool to compare two DOC 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 DOC documents, and you can quickly find even small changes and export such diffs to a document in a convenient format.

Try to compare DOC documents

Check out how our solution to compare DOC files using Python SDK works. To achieve this, load the DOC 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 DOC files using Python 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 asposewordscloud

words_api = 
    WordsApi(client_id = '####-####-####-####-####', client_secret = '##################')
file_name1= 'Input1.doc'
file_name2= 'Input2.doc'
file_result= 'Output.doc'

#  Upload documents to cloud storage.
first_document_content = open(file_name1, 'rb')
upload_first_file_request = 
    asposewordscloud.models.requests.UploadFileRequest(
	file_content=first_document_content, path=file_name1)
words_api.upload_file(upload_first_file_request)

second_document_content = open(file_name2, 'rb')
upload_second_file_request = 
    asposewordscloud.models.requests.UploadFileRequest(
	file_content=second_document_content, path=file_name2)
words_api.upload_file(upload_second_file_request)

#  Compare documents in cloud.
compare_data_options = 
    asposewordscloud.CompareData(
	author='author', comparing_with_document=file_name2)
compare_document_request = 
    asposewordscloud.models.requests.CompareDocumentRequest(
	name=file_name1, compare_data=compare_data_options, dest_file_name=file_result)
words_api.compare_document(compare_document_request)

#  Download result document from cloud storage.
download_file_request = asposewordscloud.models.requests.DownloadFileRequest(path=file_result)
download_file_result = words_api.download_file(download_file_request)
open('compareResult.pdf','wb').write(download_file_result)

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How to Compare two text files

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

Python library to use compare

Install Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for Python using PyPi repository. Run pip install aspose-words-cloud to install the SDK, then import the package via import asposewordscloud. As an alternative, you can manually clone Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for Python 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.