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Basically when trying to find duplicate bits of text in a given passage or passages, there freeware options limited. So even though it's out of date, Text Comparer is good a candidate to handle this.

Things this could help with:

• Coming up with boilerplate text
• Over referencing (plagiarism)
• Checking long documents for big changes that involve large chunks of text moving around

The default settings aren’t great and I didn’t see much in the way of documentation, but when you modify the comparison parameters, it’s able to find blocks of similar text:

Settings used:


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Website:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/textcomparer/
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-to ... Text.shtml

Status: Untested, probably portable when used with jPortable

License: Open source GPLv2