Text Compare Tool

What changed between the two versions?

You sent out a contract and it came back "with a few small edits", with no hint of where. Or you have two versions of your CV and cannot remember which is the latest. Reading both side by side to find the one word that moved is exhausting. Jood's text compare tool puts both versions in one table and colors every line that changed.

How to use it

1. Paste the old version into "Original Text".
2. Paste the new version into "Modified Text".
3. Tick the options if you need them, then click "Start Now".

Reading the result

• The match rate sits at the top, with the line count of each text. It only reaches 100% when both texts are exactly the same.
• Yellow line: in both versions, but changed.
• Red line: only in the first text, so it was deleted.
• Green line: only in the second text, so it was added.

The comparison works line by line. If one word changes in a long line, the whole line turns yellow, so read that cell carefully to find the exact word. That is why the result is clearer when paragraphs are short or split into lines.

The two options

• Ignore letter case: Contract and contract no longer count as a difference.
• Ignore extra spaces: useful when one of the texts came from an email or a PDF full of doubled spaces.

Other uses

• Comparing two lists to see which items are in one but not the other.
• Checking a configuration file that someone else edited.
• Making sure the text published on your site is the one that was approved.

If both versions are PDF files, go straight to Compare PDF instead of copying the text out. Each text can be up to 20,000 lines long.

Where your texts go

Both texts are sent to Jood's server, compared there, and the table appears on the same page. Neither is kept afterwards.

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