Government

Tracking amendments to regulations and circulars published as whole documents

How compliance, legal and public sector teams compare a re-issued regulation, notification or circular against the previous version to list the amendments.

Published 2026-09-062 min readSimpleFileTools

The re-issued document

Many authorities publish an amended regulation as a complete new document rather than as a list of amendments. Anyone who has to comply with it now has to find the amendments themselves, usually by reading the whole thing next to the old one.

Comparison as the first step

Upload the previous version and the new one. The change list is the amendment list: each changed provision with its page number and the old and new text. Numbering changes caused by an inserted section are reported as what they are, and moved sections are reported as moves.

Who uses this

At scale

The API lets a regulatory-change service compare every newly published version against the last one automatically and store the change list. The engine was first used this way for FDA drug label surveillance. Public sector deployments can run entirely inside government infrastructure.

Try it on your own documents. Upload two versions on the homepage. Documents up to 30 pages need no account, and nothing is stored.

Industry page: PDF comparison for government and regulatory documents

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