Document Compare

The Document Compare workflow takes two versions of a document — a baseline (the current version) and a target (the revised version) — and produces a clear, paragraph-by-paragraph report of exactly what changed, plus an overall synopsis you can read in seconds. It is built for reviewing revised contracts, regulations, policies, and other long-form documents where every wording change matters.

When to Use It

Pick Document Compare when:

• You have two versions of the same document and need to know precisely what changed between them.

• The changes matter at the wording level — numbers, dates, names, deadlines, and legal references must not slip through.

• You want a readable report you can share, rather than a raw redline.

If you instead need to classify or extract data from a batch of unrelated documents, use the Categorization or Categorization/Extraction workflow.

Setting Up

Two Ways to Run a Comparison

In the App

Open your configuration, drop one file into the Baseline field and the other into the Target field, and start the comparison. The report appears on screen as soon as it's ready.

By Email

Every configuration has its own dedicated email address. Send a message to that address with the two documents as attachments and the report comes back to your inbox as a formatted email. When the attachments arrive without clear labels, Document Compare reads your message and the file names to work out which document is the original and which is the revision.

Reading the Report

At the top of the report you get an overall synopsis — a one-line headline and a few bullet points capturing the gist of the revision — followed by a count of how many sections were changed, added, removed, and left unchanged.

By default the report lists only the differences, which keeps it reliable and readable even for very long documents. Each entry shows the wording before and after, with the exact edits highlighted inline, and carries a relevance flag (low, medium, high) so substantive changes stand out from cosmetic ones. Numbers, dates, names, and legal references are always treated as substantive, so nothing meaningful is glossed over.

You can download the report at any time to share it or keep it on file.

Set the Report Language

Choose the language the summary and change descriptions are written in — independent of the documents' own language. So you can compare two German contracts and read the report in English, or vice versa, and everyone on your team reads it in the language they prefer. The chosen language is shown in the run overview alongside the status and duration.