Re: [libreoffice-users] diff of 2 docx files

If you write the files out as .fodt (Flat XML) files from within LO, you 
will have straight XML files to compare.

Beyond that, you could get the tika-app.jar from the Apache Tika 
project, which will let you extract plain text from the .fodt files and 
directly from the .odt files.
On 4/02/2014 6:36 pm, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is it possible to have a diff between 2 .docx files in libreoffice? Or
> with any other tool, I do not really mind...
> I am not fond of office suites, but at my work they sent me an outdated
> document describing what I have to do, and when I asked about some
> "details" ( or errors, in fact ) in it, they sent me a different ( but
> still with errors... ) version of the same document.
> With a simple text file, I could have made a diff ( lot of tools for
> that ) but I have no idea about how to do it with docx files. I have
> obviously tried to unzip them, and use diff and meld on resulting files,
> but those files are so messy, that I thought that, maybe, they are
> encrypted of whatever!
> Now that I think about it, I could do a diff of files made through a
> copy/paste of the text... but that would be quite dirty.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> PS: I did not registered to this list, so please add me in CC.

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