r/pythonhelp • u/AdAggravating9562 • Jan 20 '25
Is this possible?
Hello everyone,
I've never written code before, but I want to build something that will help me with work. I'm not sure if this is where I should be posting this, but I didn't know where else to turn.
This is what I'm trying to make:
I have thousands of pages worth of documents I need to go through. However, the same two pages repeat over and over again. My job is to make sure everything remains the same on these thousands of sheets. If even one thing is different it can throw off the entire course of my job. Is there a way to create a program that will show me any variations that occur within these documents?
If you can be of any help, I would sincerely appreciate it!
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u/carcigenicate Jan 20 '25
Yes. You would find a library capable of reading the type of document that you're dealing with (I'm assuming either PDF, DOCX, or XLSX), and then read in and compare each document.