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edgi-govdata-archiving / web-monitoring-diff

Tools for diffing and comparing web content. Also includes a web server that makes diffs available as an HTTP service.
https://web-monitoring-diff.readthedocs.io/
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Add differ for word docs? #7

Open Mr0grog opened 6 years ago

Mr0grog commented 6 years ago

We don’t have a lot of Word docs in our DB, but there are a few and Analysts have noted that they are a pain. That said, we aren’t any worse than the existing tool (Versionista), plus we can do edgi-govdata-archiving/web-monitoring-ui#186, so this isn’t a high priority.

I don’t know if there are any great Linux tools out there for rendering a .doc file, but there certainly a few libraries that can handle .docx, like Mammoth: https://github.com/mwilliamson/python-mammoth, which can convert to HTML, Markdown, or plain text, any of which we could then diff with existing algorithms.

We could also use a service like Zamzar to convert, then diff.

danielballan commented 6 years ago

I would guess that handling .doc sufficiently to get a readable diff sounds is a chore beyond our current capacity, but .docx -> HTML seems easy enough to add.

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Mr0grog commented 5 years ago

This is more of a long-term idea. Would be great to have someone jump in and take a cut at it.

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Mr0grog commented 5 years ago

Keeping this open as a call for contributions. We probably don’t have the capacity for this right now, but if you’re interested in diffing and would like to take a shot at writing a function that can diff .docx files, we’d love to integrate it!