Hi All,
I have any interesting problem statement. The intranet application (.NET 4.0) which I'm developing is used by users to create contract documents and the contract text is stored as plain text. The users can make edits to boilerplate contracts and then these edits need need to be reviewed by attorneys.
The requirement I have is to display the edits in a track change mode on the web page.
To do this, I have found an opensource api from Google: code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/ . However, my organization's architect doesn't want to use open source for sensitive information such as contracts. We've been asked to investigate whether we can use MS Word API to do this because essentially MS Word does the same when it compares and merges 2 documents.
Can anyone help me on whether this is possible or not and if yes, how.
Note:
1. We're not comparing word documents. We want to compare plain text and display the output on a webpage.
2. If using Word API is feasible then is MS Office required to be installed on the server that hosts the application?
Thank you so much.