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NoteThis feature is available only for Word documents, PowerPoint and Open Document presentations.
GroupDocs.Comparison allows you to compare more than two documents.
To compare several documents, follow these steps:
- Instantiate the
Comparerobject. Specify the source document path or stream. - Call the
add()method and specify the target document path or stream. Repeat this step for every target document. - Call the
compare()method.
The following code snippets show how to several documents:
import groupdocs.comparison as gc
def compare_multiple_documents(source_path, target_paths, result_path, output_directory, output_file_name):
# Initialize the comparer with the source file
comparer = gc.Comparer(source_path)
# Add target files
for target_path in target_paths:
comparer.add(target_path)
# Set comparison options and save options
save_options = gc.options.SaveOptions()
compare_options = gc.options.CompareOptions()
# Perform the compare operation and save the result
comparer.compare(output_file_name, save_options, compare_options)
print(f"\nDocuments compared successfully.\nCheck output in {output_file_name}.")
The result is as follows:
import groupdocs.comparison as gc
def compare_multiple_documents(output_directory, output_file_name, sourcePath, targetPath1, targetPath2, targetPath3):
# Initialize the comparer with the source file stream
with open(sourcePath, 'rb') as source_stream:
comparer = gc.Comparer(source_stream)
# Add the target file streams
with open(targetPath1, 'rb') as target_stream1, \
open(targetPath2, 'rb') as target_stream2, \
open(targetPath3, 'rb') as target_stream3:
comparer.add(target_stream1)
comparer.add(target_stream2)
comparer.add(target_stream3)
# Perform the compare operation and save the result
comparer.compare(output_file_name)
print(f"\nDocuments compared successfully.\nCheck output in {output_file_name}.")
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