https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/general/8785/comparing-documentsHow to check duplicate documents..? Is there any out of box functionality? OriginalPostID-245197en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/39182?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:01:02 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:2bf0423e-baa9-4e1e-b874-0e0604a31028pavanikthank you all......<br /> your comments worth a lot<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/39181?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 09 Nov 2016 12:37:09 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:90ed0bc7-058b-408d-a4e7-b68eab0fc857Dastagiri DudekulaOnly compatible with 7.5,7.4,7.3,7.2,7.1 versions<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/39013?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:52:49 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:316b6030-3bba-4a8a-932c-d238385a292fStefan HelzleYou can store the hash value to DB when uploading a document. Then it is pretty easy to search for similar ones.<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/39006?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 07 Nov 2016 14:35:33 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:849559d3-fda4-46d2-982c-0814179f28bapavanik@Ramanjaneyulu Thummala...<br /> My use case is : I want to restrict an end user from uploading duplicate documents..<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/39005?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 07 Nov 2016 14:06:13 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:c548fce2-6695-4da9-b7a0-30af2202f2e2Rama Thummala@Pavani<br />Can you elaborate your use case here?<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/39002?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 07 Nov 2016 11:57:28 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:d7df9c67-01ba-4023-a058-abe7a8db878epavanik*stefanh791<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/39001?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 07 Nov 2016 11:56:57 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:62f97266-4fed-42e8-a417-c217c8b6d49bpavanik@stefanh , thanks a lot it was helpful...<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/38996?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:39:37 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f15d28df-08d2-4f54-ac5c-b08c50488739Stefan HelzleIf you want to search for duplicates, there is no function available I am aware of. If you want to compare two documents you could use some hash functions to create hashes and compare these. See <a href="https://forum.appian.com/suite/tempo/records/item/lIBCLGOdlMUpdGVqW3dQaIKmclBmvvNEj8vu_cjb7T-5YiPr4Fu8ly5Yj1s09uenE4RYzA8zKyx7eiUg-JE6YxJAVUgXZEDeO6nx0832_6bnaIr/view/summary">forum.appian.com/.../summary</a><div style="clear:both;"></div>