Finding differences in PDF documents
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Conclusion
The tools presented here make modifications and differences in PDF documents more apparent and easier to access. Note that using these tools to compare PDF documents is typically successful only when the data in the documents is presented in text form. Otherwise, you will need to compare the documents visually, which may mean that some details are missed.
Infos
- GNU Coreutils: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
- Pdftotext (Poppler utils – Debian package): https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/poppler-utils
- Pdfdiff: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/cas.cremers/misc/pdfdiff.html
- Comparepdf: http://www.qtrac.eu/comparepdf.html
- DiffPDF: http://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf.html
- Coreutils (Debian package): https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/coreutils
- KDiff3: http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
- Meld: http://meldmerge.org/
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