can we use full text search and mining algorithms to comapre two word or text documents to find out if they are similar
please help.
thaks for reading

Hi!

I'm looking for a solution too which can help me to compare two word documents using C#. For the moment I compare the two documents only by strings(I mean, only by the text content) but they could also have different styles, font sizes, images... Can we compare those 2 docs by bytes? It will be OK?

        /// <summary>
        /// Converts the content of a Word document to a string.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="document"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static string ConvertDocToString(Word.Document document)
        {
            string myLocalString = String.Empty;

            try
            {
                myLocalString = document.Content.Text;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                OfficeLibraryUtils.logger.Error(ex);
                OfficeLibraryUtils.HandleException(ex);
            }

            return myLocalString;
        }

        public static bool AreTheSame(string string1, string string2)
        {
            // If CompareTo returns diff from 0, then the 2 strings are different.
            return (string1.CompareTo(string2) == 0);
        }

Thanks in advance,
Nicu