This program examines a collection of document files. It extracts the text portions of those documents and looks through them for matching words in phrases of a specified minimum length. When it finds two files that share enough words in those phrases, WCopyfind generates html report files. These reports contain the document text with the matching phrases underlined.
What WCopyfind can do: It can find documents that share large amounts of text. This result may indicate that one file is a copy or partial copy of the other, or that they are both copies or partial copies of a third document.WCopyfind can presently handle text, html, and some word processor files (notably Microsoft Word documents in the old .doc format, but not the new .docx format!). Click here for interesting things WCopyfind 2.6 can do.
What WCopyfind cannot do: It cannot search the web or internet to find matching documents for you. You must specify which documents it compares. Those documents can be local ones—on your computer or a file server—or, with versions 2.1 and higher, web-resident documents that are pointed to by localinternet shortcuts. If you suspect that a particular web page has been copied, you must create an internet shortcut to that page and include this shortcut in the collection of documents that you give to WCopyfind. WCopyfind can't handle pdf files directly, but you can use copy and paste to move the text from a pdf file to a word processor file.
What WCopyfind may be able to do someday: The To-Do List
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