PDF Compare

I am not able to do compare two PDFs with the option of CTR+TAB button in Adobe Acrobat (Version 11). Please let me know how I can do the compare?

This has to do with the GUI change that happened between Acrobat 9 and X. It switched from SDI to MDI, and is not likely to switch back. You can use Alt+Tab to switch between Acrobat windows now, just like with any other application.

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Need to know how to check text accuracy for CN language PDF's? I knew for EN and EU language, similarly i would like to know for Chinese language books in PDF compare process.

Hi.
This is for Ebook conversion purpose, Currently am doing the text accuracy for English(EN) and Latin(EU) books using Acrobat 11 Pro application with Source and Converted PDF(final output of epub/mobi).
Similarly am trying to find the text accuracy for Chinese language books using PDF compare process, When i attempt, could see the compare report in PDF format for CN books, but i cannot catch the any text errors in it. Please advise and help me out whether i need to go for different version of acrobat or do i need to add any plug-ins with respect to language or chinese fonts here.

Could any one please advise me on my question, so that it will be helpful to purchase the correct application before i go forward.

PDF Compare - Server Side

It looks like using the below code one can automate comparing of two PDF documents. I wish to know if Acrobat X Pro can be used for a server based automation and if not which version is advisable. We wish to automate PDF compare on server side to work with existing .Net based solutions. Any help / guidance is highly appreciated.
             AcroAppClass acroApp1 = new AcroAppClass();
            acroApp1.Hide();
            AcroPDDocClass acrpDoc1 = new AcroPDDocClass();
            acrpDoc1.Open("c:\\MoreInformation.pdf");
            acrpDoc1.OpenAVDoc("BaseLine");
            AcroAppClass acroApp2 = new AcroAppClass();
            acroApp2.Hide();
            AcroPDDocClass acrpDoc2 = new AcroPDDocClass();
            acrpDoc2.Open("c:\\MoreInformation1.pdf");
            acrpDoc2.OpenAVDoc("Revised");
            AcroAVDoc avDoc = new AcroAVDoc();
            AcroAppClass acroMainApp = new AcroAppClass();
            acroMainApp.MenuItemExecute("DIGSIG:CompareDocuments");
            avDoc = (AcroAVDoc)acroMainApp.GetActiveDoc();
            Acrobat.CAcroPDDoc acrpDiffDoc = (Acrobat.CAcroPDDoc)avDoc.GetPDDoc();
            bool save = acrpDiffDoc.Save((short)PDSaveFlags.PDSaveFull, "c:\\compared.pdf");

Acrobat can NOT be used on a server.

Invoking Acrobat PDF compare from Java code

Need to invoke the Adobe Acrobat XI's PDF compare feature using Java code.
Description:
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We are exploring the possibilities of passing 2 PDF's from Java to Adobe Acrobat XI SDK to get the compared results in new PDF.
If anyone has explored with this feature... please share your thoughts.

You would need to write a custom plugin to Acrobat that calls the compare APIs (as they are only accessible from C/C++). Your plugin can then expose whatever from of IAC/IPC that it wishes to communicate with your Java code.
Of course, this is all DESKTOP code since Acrobat can't be used on a server.

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.

PDF Compares

My department has been using the PDF compare function for
many years. We still have versions of Acrobat 5, 6, 7 & 8
because each one operates a bit different. We recently got Acrobat
9.0 Pro and there is finally a PDF compare that is accurate
(hurray!). Unfortunately, some of the features Acrobat 6 & 7
Pro have are not in 9. So we figured out how to get it to do most
of what we wants using a few plug-ins.
BUT, there is something I have not been able to figure out.
The compare shows a thin lined strike-through for a deletion.
Anyone with less than 20/20 vision swears there is no mark on the
page at all no matter what color I make it! So, we started to
manually change deletions to highlights so a human error factor has
entered (and happened) and it takes way too long.
I want to have the option of making the deletion a highlight
instead of a strike through. Because the strike-through is now an
annotation in Acrobat 9.0 Pro, I have not found a way to
automatically change them to highlights.
It would be great if the Acrobat developers would fix this
up, but any other input will be taken with open arms.
Amy Conley

Thanks for the Post.
Welcome to the Acrobat. Hope You enjoy Acrobat 9Pro!!!!!
Your best source of questions and answers for Acrobat would
be at the Adobe Acrobat Forums.Link is provided below
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.ee6b2f2/
Thanks
Cheenu

Please help. I can't open pdf comparables report from MLS Realist website.

Please help. I can't open pdf comparables reporT from MLS Realist website. Thank you!

I have this problem too and no one seems to be able to figure out what should be done. Feel like not using iPad any more.

PDF Comparing in Adobe Acrobat

Does Adobe Acrobat helps in comparing pdf files with image and text at same time. Not like other tools like Araxis Merge which have Text view and Image view and are not able to compare the file in one view.
Also, can it do a three way comparing and if possible merge.
and whether it can run from command line?
If any one can provide the answer. It's real urgent.
As far as I know it is able to compare pdfs, but I do not know the details.

Thanx Dave,
If you can give some idea as of any feature in any adobe tool which can do the three way comparison and run from command line.
Also Dave, if you can suggest for any other tool in the market other than adobe which can do this all things as I mentioned above.

Create an applescript to automate PDF compare?

I need to create an applescript to automate comparing B4 and After PDF. Can this be done with applescripting.

I know of no way to automate it. The PDF that you see really only exists on the screen. The internal structures that define it have little or no connection to the display. For example, if you open a Word document in a basic text editor, in between the special characters you can still read the text. You can't do that with a PDF. A PDF that appears to be entirely text may not contain any text.
You would have to develop a system that exported text and compared the text. Such a system would fail more often than not. You could instead create a system that exported each PDF as an image and compared the image. You would likely get false positives but it should work.
Adobe claims to have a diff feature in Acrobat Pro: http://www.adobe.com/ca/products/acrobat/file-compare-two-pdf-files.html
There are some open-source tools as well: http://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf.html
Good luck with either.
If you are the one making the changes, you could use Preview's browse versions feature to visually compare them.

Adobe acrobat pdf compare problem

I have query on Adobe Acrobat Proffesional 7 on comparing texual difference for the attached two pdf file its show text is identical.
But in the two pdf files difference is present.
Please kindly advise on this.
Thanks..

If you check teh box to check font issues, then there is a difference indicated with the text comparison. It is indicated that there is a font difference. This was the result I got with AA7 that you said you are using. The characters are apparently the same number, but one in ANSI and the other in Roman of your font style.

How do I compare 2 PDF files for equality?

Hi,
I want to be able to compare 2 pdf files programmatically in C#.
I have tried using binary compare and I have found that
2 identical files do not match due to meta data I assume.
All I want to do is compare 2 files and match if
the displayed part is the same. The files have text, lines
and jpg.
If I cant do it in C# is there any library that can?
Malcolm

The Acrobat SDK includes a PDF compare function but its only available to plugins (written in C/C++).

Comparing two PDF documents | Acrobat Tips and Tricks | Adobe TV

This video will get you started with using the improved Compare Documents command in Acrobat 9 to identify what has changed between two versions of a PDF file.
http://adobe.ly/xqvrc7

Hi there. Thanks for the video. But is there a feature to move among the found differences? Or to show ONLY the differences? In a large document, it's not enough to just "look for" the color-coded differences.
I have not found any such features on viewing a compared doc. I've also looked in the help and now am looking to see if other resources discussing PDF compare might show it. Thanks for any thoughts.

In testing 9 and X, "Compare Docs" we have a critical issue and really need help!

For years we have used Acrobat 7 to do PDF compares and we love it! However, the company recently advised we must upgrade to 9 and then eventually to X. In testing 9 and X, Compare Docs we have a critical issue and really need help. Our PDFs are produced by IT in a batch process and one of our main, critical functions is to compare previous PDFs to current PDFs; however, in using 9 the Compare screen automatically sets the Doc Description for our PDFs to "Scanned Doc" and does not produce any differences! If you try to change the setting to Reports --it totally shuts down both documents without running! Version 7 runs the compare of the same PDFs beautifully, pointing out all the differences, as usual! Has this every happen to anyone? Do you know what we can do to our PDFs to allow version 9 to do the compare and produce results? Why is 9 treating these non-scanned PDF docs as such? Thanks so much for any help or insight you can give me on this issue!

(Moved the discussion to the correct forum)

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Hi Gail,
It's pretty hard to find comparisons, but I think I found a couple. I'm
going to see if I can dig up more for the future.
Cheers
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/upgrade/
Compares last two paid consumer products with each other PhotoShop
Elements 5, 6 and the suite that includes Premiere Elements.
http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/pdfs/pse2-ps7_comparison_chart.pdf
Compares an older consumer version to an older professional version. I
know it's not what you are looking for, but I thought people might like
to see how the two categories roughly stack up...
Interesting... nothing on PSA SE thus far.

How to remove Soft hyphens in text PDF?

Currently am working on the text validation for ebooks using PDF compare process. And am able to fetch errors along with false positive issues in final compare report.
To ignore the false positive errors, i need to delete the soft hyphen in source PDF. Could any one please guide us on this.

There is no such thing as a soft hyphen in a PDF (except where it is tagged). There are hyphen characters, but the information on them is purely visual. No design-time decisions such as soft vs. hard remain, just as they do not remain on a sheet of paper.

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