Project description

pdf-diff

Finds differences between two PDF documents:

Compares the text layers of two PDF documents and outputs the bounding boxes of changed text in JSON.
Rasterizes the changed pages in the PDFs to a PNG and draws red outlines around changed text.

Example Image Output

The script is written in Python 3, and it relies on the pdftotext program.

libxml2 >= 2.7.0, libxslt >= 1.1.23, poppler

sudo apt-get install python3-lxml poppler-utils

brew install libxml2 libxslt poppler

From PyPI:

pip install pdf-diff

From source:

sudo python3 setup.py install

Turn two PDFs into one large PNG image showing the differences:

pdf-diff before.pdf after.pdf > comparison_output.png

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0.9.1

Jun 20, 2019

0.9.0

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