Detecting differences
The intelligent analysis used by CAR tools detect the differences do not have the same value depending on their type and/or the document field/subject. For example, a difference on a number is not the same if this number is a date, a price, a page number, a figure number, a part of an address, a footnote call, a list item number, a title number, etc. * a title number or a list item number difference can be of no interest if these numbers will be re-calculated afterward before printing or publishing by a text processing tool, * a small number difference like "1" to "one" or "1" to "1st" is often of secondary interest, depending on the subject and the field of the document * while some other number differences can be very damageable to the document. These tools are interesting in various kind of applications: * comparison between a document and an updated/modified version of it. The main goal is then to highlight the modifications made by a third person or a text processing software. * comparison between a document edited two file formats:For translation
Computer assisted reviewing for translation (CART) tools are CAR tools being able to manage multi-lingual comparisons. This implies to be able to match each part of text from one document to the other, taking into account the specificity of each language: date/number formats, punctuation (for example,Application examples
* A book author updating his document (often in Word format) while he is receiving printer's proofs (often in PDF), or translations in another language. * A web site content manager that should ensure updates and versions consistence of his HTML pages in different languages * A printer that should ensure the consistency and the quality of his process, possibly using proprietary XML/SGML formats, some automatic treatments, possible manual interventions, done by himself or by a subcontractor. * An editor through which documents from all actors are transiting * TheSee also
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