1. A computer system configured to automatically analyze text documents by performing the following steps: comparing text from a subject text to text of a plurality of given text templates, each text template containing at least one paragraph of text; determining which given text template or text templates has text that matches the text from the subject text document to a given degree of correspondence; generating a report of the differences between the text from the subject text document and the text of the matching text template or text templates; comparing a family of specimen text documents; identifying one paragraph of text within one of the family of specimen text documents that most closely matches a paragraph of text in all of the other specimen text documents, as compared to all of the other paragraphs in the one specimen text document; and generating one of the text templates containing at least the one identified paragraph of text.
5. The computer system of claim 1 wherein the determining matches to a degree of correspondence step uses a longest common subsequence algorithm.