9. The media of claim 8 wherein the programming instructions, when loaded in the computer system, also cause the computer system, in response to user commands, to perform the following steps: 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.
8. Non-transitory, tangible, computer readable media containing computer programming instructions that, when loaded in a computer system having a memory, cause the computer system, in response to user commands, to automatically analyze text documents by performing the following steps in the order recited: receiving a subject text document; comparing the text of the subject text document or the text of a subset of the subject text document to the 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 of the subject text document or the text of the subset of the subject text document to a given degree of correspondence; and generating a report of the differences between the text of the subject text document or the text of the subset of the subject text document and the text of the matching text template or text templates.