Abstract: Document difference viewing and navigation are disclosed that enables automatic comparison and easy viewing of the difference between many documents (e.g., four or more, dozens, hundreds, or thousands of documents) for, for example, document review processes. The system receives and reads a set of documents containing text. The system identifies shared text and differences by location within the shared text among different documents in the set of documents. It sorts the documents in the set of documents into groups of different text variation versions and generates a shared difference document. The shared difference document is displayed in a first panel of a user interface and displays shared text as static text and areas of difference in highlighted regions. When a user selects of a given area of difference, the text variations and a list of documents containing one or more corresponding text variations are displayed in a second panel.

Abstract: Document difference viewing and navigation are disclosed that enables automatic comparison and easy viewing of the difference between many documents (e.g., four or more, dozens, hundreds, or thousands of documents) for, for example, document review processes. The system receives and reads a set of documents containing text. The system identifies shared text and differences by location within the shared text among different documents in the set of documents. It sorts the documents in the set of documents into groups of different text variation versions and generates a shared difference document. The shared difference document is displayed in a first panel of a user interface and displays shared text as static text and areas of difference in highlighted regions. When a user selects of a given area of difference, the text variations and a list of documents containing one or more corresponding text variations are displayed in a second panel.