How to find duplicate PDF, txt. or doc files?

[adam turner]

Hello everyone,

I would like to clean up my corpus a bit by removing duplicate files. Could anyone recommend some software that could do the job?

txt only would be sufficient. PDF also would be great. I want to automatically find duplicate academic journal articles that I and others have downloaded. 

I looked on the internet, but there are too many options, and I don't like downloading utility type software from untrusted sources. Most programs also seem to be designed to find duplicate lines of text in a program. 

Adam 

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi,

I've used the following tool in the past:

http://www.alldup.de/en_download_alldup.php

As you say though, I cannot say for certain if the software can be trusted or not. You would have to use it at your own risk.

Laurence.

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[JFlorian]

Perhaps I'm not considering a bigger picture, but... why not just use Windows search?