Araxis Merge

Araxis Merge is a professional tool designed to compare and merge text files, images, and directories. It offers advanced capabilities for developers, technical writers, and other professionals who need to manage changes in documents or source code.

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• Text file comparison. Analyzes text files line by line, highlighting differences with configurable colors. Supports multiple encoding formats and detects minimal changes, including spaces and tabs.
• Document merging. Allows combining file versions manually or automatically. Includes tools for resolving conflicts during merging and saving results to a new file.
• Image comparison. Detects differences between images in BMP, JPEG, PNG and other formats. Shows modified areas with overlay or highlighted differences.
• Directory comparison. Examines entire folders, identifying new, deleted, or modified files. Supports filters to exclude files by name or extension.
• Version control support. Integration with systems such as Git, Subversion and Mercurial. Allows comparing revisions directly from the version control client.
• Real-time editing. Modifies files during comparison without changing windows. Changes are immediately reflected in the difference analysis.
• Syntax highlighting. Supports code coloring for programming languages like C++, Java, Python and others. Makes it easy to identify changes in source code.
• Comparison templates. Configure custom rules to ignore certain types of differences, such as comments or whitespace.
• Report generation. Creates HTML or PDF documents with comparison results, including statistics and details of the differences found.
• Customizable interface. Adjusts window layout, colors and keyboard shortcuts according to user preferences.
• Unicode support. Works with files in multiple languages and encodings, including UTF-8 and UTF-16.
• Three‑way comparison. Analyzes three versions of a file simultaneously to identify conflicting changes between branches or versions.

Araxis Merge was developed by Araxis Ltd, a British company founded in 1991. The first version of the software was released in 1996. The program is written primarily in C++ to ensure high performance when comparing large volumes of data. Over the years, Araxis Merge has incorporated advanced features while maintaining its focus on precision and productivity for professional users.

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