Comparison of two pdf files

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Aisharjya Sarkar picture Aisharjya Sarkar · Jul 15, 2011 · Viewed 8.8k times · Source

I need to compare the contents of two almost similar files and highlight the dissimilar portions in the corresponding pdf file. Am using pdfbox. Please help me atleast with the logic.

Answer

Kurt Pfeifle picture Kurt Pfeifle · Jul 18, 2011

If you prefer a tool with a GUI, you could try this one: diffpdf. It's by Mark Summerfield, and since it's written with Qt, it should be available (or should be buildable) on all platforms where Qt runs on.

Here's a screenshot:enter image description here

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