groupdocs/comparison repository overview

⁠GroupDocs Document Comparison API

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GroupDocs.Comparison Demos are applications that demonstrate powerful features of GroupDocs.Comparison for Java⁠ distributed as Docker images. Compare DOCX, PDF, PPT, XLS, and over 50 document formats⁠ without additional dependencies. Use these images as-is or customize and integrate them into your own project.

Note: without a license the application runs in trial mode. Purchase a license⁠ or request a temporary license⁠.

⁠Security Notice

These Docker images ship sample/demo applications — not production-ready services.

• Intended for local development and evaluation only
• Demo defaults enable upload, browse, and download; no authentication is included
• Do not expose port 8080 to untrusted networks without authentication, a reverse proxy, path validation, and other controls required by your organization
• For production, use the GroupDocs.Comparison library⁠ and implement your own secure document storage and API layer

Source code: GroupDocs.Comparison-for-Java⁠

⁠Document Comparison Demo Features

• Clean, modern and intuitive design
• Easily switchable colour theme
• Responsive design and mobile support
• HTML and image modes
• Fully customizable navigation panel
• Compare documents and multi-compare several documents
• Compare password-protected documents
• Upload documents and display clearly visible differences
• Download and print comparison results
• Smooth document scrolling and preloaded pages for faster rendering
• Multi-language support for displaying errors
• Cross-browser and cross-platform support

⁠Available Docker Images

Six images are published for each GroupDocs.Comparison for Java release: three Spring and three Dropwizard variants.

Tag format: {version}-java-{jdk}-bullseye-{framework}

Example: 26.5-java-openjdk8-bullseye-dropwizard — GroupDocs.Comparison for Java 26.5, Eclipse Temurin 8, Debian Bullseye, Dropwizard.

The latest tag points to the 26.5-java-openjdk18-bullseye-spring variant when published with the latest workflow option.

⁠How to Run

Pull and run a Dropwizard image:

docker run -p 8080:8080 --name comparison --rm groupdocs/comparison:26.5-java-openjdk8-bullseye-dropwizard
# Open http://localhost:8080/comparison/ in your browser.

Bind volumes for sample files and license:

docker run -p 8080:8080 --name comparison --rm \
  -v "C:/DocumentSamples/:/home/groupdocs/app/DocumentSamples" \
  -v "C:/Licenses/:/home/groupdocs/app/Licenses" \
  groupdocs/comparison:26.5-java-openjdk8-bullseye-dropwizard

The sample reads license files from the mounted Licenses directory and lists documents from DocumentSamples.

⁠Comparison Configuration Options

Environment variables:

⁠See Also

• View documents⁠ with GroupDocs.Viewer
• Sign documents⁠ with GroupDocs.Signature
• Annotate documents⁠ with GroupDocs.Annotation

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