I would like to compare the contents of two documents. These documents are going to be docx format. I have tried the following: Appian Community: Compare Microsoft Word Documents Plugin - does not seem to work Usage of App Market: Diff Utils and readtextfromfile from App Market: Text File Reader - shows a ton of garbage because of the metadata in the docx format Any ideas?

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Compare two documents or versions

I would like to compare the contents of two documents. These documents are going to be docx format. I have tried the following:

Appian Community: Compare Microsoft Word Documents Plugin - does not seem to work
Usage of App Market: Diff Utils and readtextfromfile from App Market: Text File Reader - shows a ton of garbage because of the metadata in the docx format

Any ideas?

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A valid use case for Intelligent Document Processing?

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Hi David -

That's an interesting thought, but I do not think IDP is a great fit for this use case.

There's some new content on Academy about IDP that explains good IDP use cases. It will take approximately 10 minutes to consume this content.

(lmk if the link is no good!)