ComPair - Quick Start Guideimage/svg+xmlComPair - Quick Start Guide08/2020cubAIxEN ComPair Compare documents, in any formats, in any languages Quick start guide contact@cubAIx.com http://cubAIx.com cub[AI] x cub[AI] x ComPair – Quick start guide V2 - 08/2020 Table of contents 1 Download and install ComPair.......................................................................................................................................................................... 3 2 Document comparison...................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 3 Alignment edition............................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 4 HTML export.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12 5 TMX export....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 contact@cub AI x.com http://cub AI x.com/ cub[AI] x ComPair – Quick start guide V2 - 08/2020 1 Download and install ComPair ComPair will enable you to compare 2 documents before/after a correction or before/after a translation. It produces comparison reports, that can be sent by email, to discuss your work with your customers, your translators, your partners, or your lawyers. ComPair is a universal document comparer, to be installed on your computer: • It compares two versions of a document, • If needed in two different file formats, • In the same language or in two different languages. • All common office file formats are accepted, including PDF scanned documents. • All languages are processed (languages can be added on demand in the selectors). contact@cub AI x.com http://cub AI x.com/ cub[AI] x ComPair – Quick start guide V2 - 08/2020 2 Document comparison Remark: to compare PDF documents, you will obtain better results when converting them as DOCX before comparison. For this, the best is certainly to use a dedicated software, including an OCR (for example, Abbyy or Nuance products). MS Office, in its latest versions, is a quite good PDF to DOCX converter (without OCR). Launch ComPair, you should get this blank window: contact@cub AI x.com http://cub AI x.com/ cub[AI] x ComPair – Quick start guide V2 - 08/2020 Click on the first two buttons to select the language for each of your documents to be compared: Click/check the “OCR” button if you want to enable the text extraction from images in scanned PDF documents (need the free Tesseract OCR to be installed). Click/uncheck the “Fast mode” button if you want to compare large documents with important differences (several pages changed, added, or removed). contact@cub AI x.com http://cub AI x.com/ 1 2 cub[AI] x ComPair – Quick start guide V2 - 08/2020 Click on the “1/2” button : contact@cub AI x.com http://cub AI x.com/ 3 cub[AI] x ComPair – Quick start guide V2 - 08/2020 It should open a file selector. Select the first file to be compared, and click the “Open” button: contact@cub AI x.com http://cub AI x.com/ 4 5 cub[AI] x ComPair – Quick start guide V2 - 08/2020 It should open a second file selector. Select the second file to be compared, and click the “Open” button: contact@cub AI x.com http://cub AI x.com/ 6 7 cub[AI] x ComPair – Quick start guide V2 - 08/2020 After a short calculation time, the comparison result should appear with color highlighting: Colors are showing elements you should certainly look at with more attention. They don’t highlight something especially good or bad, it depends on your texts: • GREEN: identical text • BLUE: identical text with case differences • RED: spacial text objects (capitalized, punctuation, number, ..) without a found corresponding pair You can enter some text in the search bar to limit the comparison table on lines containing this text, with or without being case sensitive. contact@cub AI x.com http://cub AI x.com/ cub[AI] x ComPair – Quick start guide V2 - 08/2020 You may choose how to view the tags, especially for HTML/XML file comparison: contact@cub AI x.com http://cub AI x.com/ cub[AI] x ComPair – Quick start guide V2 - 08/2020 3 Alignment edition You may edit the alignment: Possible actions: • click on the small new icon on the middle to remove a text association • click on a single text on one side to select/deselect it • SHIFT+click on a text on the same side to fuse several segments together, or on a text on the other side to create a new association contact@cub AI x.com http://cub AI x.com/ cub[AI] x ComPair – Quick start guide V2 - 08/2020 4 HTML export The HTML export button will enable you to create a comparison file to share with someone. This file can be sent by email. contact@cub AI x.com http://cub AI x.com/ cub[AI] x ComPair – Quick start guide V2 - 08/2020 This exported file can be opened with a simple web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, ..): contact@cub AI x.com http://cub AI x.com/ cub[AI] x ComPair – Quick start guide V2 - 08/2020 5 TMX export The TMX export is useful for translators and translation agencies, to enrich their translation memories. contact@cub AI x.com http://cub AI x.com/ http://cubaix.com/ComPair_QuickStartGuide.php http://cubaix.com/ComPair-setup.exe ComPair installer for Windows can be downloaded here: This documentation is available here:
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  1. Title
  2. TOC
  3. Download and install
  4. Document comparison
  5. Select languages
  6. Open documents
  7. Open document 1
  8. Open document 2
  9. Comparison result
  10. View XML tags
  11. Alignment edition
  12. HTML export
  13. HTML comparison file
  14. TMX export
  15. Links