• Compare 2 documents? (to see quickly the differences)

Hello -
In InDesign®,
Is there a "tool" (even a plug-in) that could compare 2 documents?
ie. More and more one asks us to make corrections in multi-languages documents (essentially texts), and it becomes impossible to always read again all the documents to see if there are no errors left…
If there was no way to do it directly from InDesign®,
is there another way to do it (eg. from a .PDF file, …)?
Thank you, have a nice day…
- Dimitri

Try this script from Kasyan Servetsky
http://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua/compare_two_documents.html
Someone mentioned this script a few months ago. I tried it in CS5 and it works great.

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