Is it possible to automate PDF compare process?

I am creating hundreds of reports monthly with InDesign and export as PDFs. What has been a pain in the A is that each month I need to manually check the PDFs to last months to see if anything changed, which mean I run pdf compare manually for all the reports. Is there a way I can bulk compare all the reports to last months or have it automated into a process so it does individual comparison automatically and just present the output as a result of comparison?

AFAIK, it's not possible to do that with Acrobat.

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