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Software that detects changes in scanned text documents

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overclucker

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Hello all,

I have some very complex insurance documents, i need to compare two packets with about 10 pages in each. But most of the data id say 3/4 are the same in both documents. I want to find the difference instead of going line by line by hand. I would like to find an app that compares the scanned documents and shows differences between the two.

Does anyone know of such an app? I take it OCR would help and then could probably check more easily.

thanks!
 
i know.. but its alot of lines, i *could* but i would rather find some tech that can do it for me.
 
Linux has free OCR software though I do not know of anything in windows that would work for free. Plus, ocr is a hands-on learning process not just for the software but you as well as you have to monitor it personally lest it make a mistake.
oth, I like diffuse (python) over winmerge. It works in both linux and windows.
http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

Android has an ap for camera phones called ScanThing (cloud based ocr). I do not own an android phone. http://scanthing.com/
 
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I think what you really want is a 2 stage thing. First, scan the documents with OCR and convert into a common document format; second, compare the 2 common documents. I doubt there is anything that can do both in one package.
 
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