The loss of functionality of Compare Documents in Acrobat.

The Compare Documents function in Acrobat 9 is now useless to my department. I am currently a Graphic Designer/ Tech Writer who writes operator manuals and had always used Compare Documents function to find the differences in the documents (mostly textual differences). Then we updated and lost this functionality altogether. Now, the only comparison option allowed is "Scanned Documents," which treats the documents as pictures and only looks for the differences of the over-all page. I would like the old textual comparison function restored. I would have mentioned something sooner, but I was hoping this was just an accident and would be fixed in a future patch

This would be better handled in the Acrobat forum. The compare document works more effectively now that you are given three choice:
You choose if the documents are (a) Reports, spreadsheets, magazine layouts, (b) Presentation decks, drawings, or illustrations, or scanned documents. You are not limited to scanned documents. If that is all you are seeing please repost in the Acrobat Windows or Acrobat Mac forum, report your version of Acrobat, your OS, and perhaps a screen shot of what you are seeing. Note, I get three options as above and I am not restricted to Scanned documents.

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I want to be able to estimate the amount of words that change from one document to another. I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI to compare two documents. The summary says "Differences exist between documents" and lists the amount of pages in each one. Then it goes on to the report and highlights insertions and deletions.
I would like a more informative summary. Previously, in Adobe Acrobat Pro 6.0 (I don't really know after that), the summary I got after comparing two documents contained how many words had been added and how many words had been deleted.
I have checked the configuration of the new Acrobat but I have not been able to find the same functionality. Is there something I am missing? Is this feature not supported anymore?
If so, is there a workaround? I have been looking into using JavaScript but I cannot access properties of words that the program highlights as having changed. Thank you very much for any insight you may have.

OCR is only for recoginition of the image / picture of text provided by an scanner.
Content typed into a Word file which is converted to a PDF is (in Word and in PDF) *not* an image or picture of text - it is the digital text. So, no OCR involved.
When the "digital" (renderable) text of a PDF's page content is exported to Word no OCR is involved.
When a PDF's content is from the image output of a scanner and this is a picture of text then OCR comes into play.
If this content is exported to Word before doing OCR then it is the image that is exported to the Word file.
Once OCR is performed it is the OCR output that is exported.
OCR output is (always will be) impacted by "the quality of the OCR and the scans of the documents".
Regardless "Compare" is based on a Word file output to PDF1 then edits to the Word file followed by an output to PDF2. You use Acrobat Pro to do a compare of PDF1 & PDF2.
Paper 1 scanned to image 1 to image 1 in PDF1 that gets OCR 1 and
Paper 2 scanned to image 2 to image 2 in PDF2 that gets OCR 2
being processed with Acrobat Pro's Compare can certainly be done.
But - well you've described what can be observed.
Be well...

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Personally, I notice that Acrobat (adobe products in general) takes longtime to install or uninstall. I don't find a striking feautre in Acrobat compared with other software!
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Adobe does like Microsoft was doing long time ago in ignoring people opinions! I don't understand why adobe persists not to include MDI (Multiple Document Interface) at least as optional feature?
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The MDI issue is caused by following Windows User Interface Guidelines. Complain to Microsoft. As to what functionality is most important. The most important is creating problem free pdfs. The other things I find important are the form related capabilities, preflight, pdf optimizer and redaction.

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Hi All,
I have a pdf document which is having some special characters like üὄ. Now I have updated the document with few corrections and while compare document in Acrobat X special characters are not shown in the report.
Can any one please look into this and give suggestion.

Hi Steve,
Thanks for your reply.
Platform - PC
Application - 3B2 and Acrobat 9
So far we have seen this kind of issue in only one document. In the below screenshot you can see 2 pdf files, the right side one is my MS pdf and the left side one is the exported pdf from 3B2 application both the files having the special characters such as . I just did the text comparison however both and is missing in the exported pdf but the reports shown the changes for characters only wherever the charactes is missing the report not shown the changes properly(See highlighted in yellow).
Please let me know if you need more deatails.

Can not compare documents

Hi, I just found out that you can compare documents in Acrobat. By problem is that I have two versions of a document that I would like to compare in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9. But when I go to > Document > Compare Documents it comes up with an error message:
“These documents have security settings which prevent comparison. Please modify the security settings to allow editing and try again.”
In both documents I have gone to > Advanced > Security > Show Security Properties; but the both show in the Security Tab “No Security” in the Security Method and everything is “Allowed” in the document restrictions part.
What other security settings would this error message be talking about?
Thanks in advance

I have the same trouble when I compare secured documents. I have received the documents from other person who has secured the documents and I can not change the settings.
So, how to compare secured documents? I see no reason why to prevent comparison because I do not edit them, only compare.

I have Adobe Acrobat XI standard, but would like to trial the "compare documents" feature on Pro. I tried to download a trial version of Pro, but the installer indicated that "it detected a more fully featured version of the product" - presumably my stand

Okay - just realised that the last screen was just asking for a "title" for my question!
I have Adobe Acrobat XI standard, but would like to trial the "compare documents" feature on Pro. I tried to download a trial version of Pro, but the installer indicated that "it detected a more fully featured version of the product" - presumably my standard version? - and stopped installation. It is not clear to me what my options are for either upgrading to Pro, or selectively purchasing the "compare documents" plugin (if possible). I am using what is presumably an Enterprise version of acrobat (i.e. my employer owns it, not me) - so not sure what limitations that results in. I think this is a simple question, but would be grateful for advice.

- You can't install Acrobat Pro alongside Acrobat Standard. You will need to remove Standard to be able to install Pro.
- You (probably) can't upgrade your license if it's a part of an enterprise license. The entire license will need to be upgraded.
- It's not possible to install just the "Compare Documents" function as a sort of add-on to Acrobat Standard.

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See the attached screen shot, and the PDF created from Adobe InDesign.
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When I OCR two versions of the same document and then compare th documents in Acrobat Pro XI, I usually get the message that there are no changes to mark. However, I know there a quite a few number of changes. I raised this question more than a year ago

When I OCR two versions of the same document and then compare the documents in Acrobat Pro XI, I usually get the message that there are no changes to mark. However, I know there a quite a few number of changes. I raised this question more than a year ago, and the response I received had to do with the quality of the OCR and the scans of the documents. However, if I use Acrobat Pro XI to save the same documents in Word and then run a comparison in Word all of the changes are marked. When a PDF is saved as a Word document in Acrobat Pro XI, is a different OCR module being used than the one used in Acrobat Pro XI for text recognition?

OCR is only for recoginition of the image / picture of text provided by an scanner.
Content typed into a Word file which is converted to a PDF is (in Word and in PDF) *not* an image or picture of text - it is the digital text. So, no OCR involved.
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When a PDF's content is from the image output of a scanner and this is a picture of text then OCR comes into play.
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Once OCR is performed it is the OCR output that is exported.
OCR output is (always will be) impacted by "the quality of the OCR and the scans of the documents".
Regardless "Compare" is based on a Word file output to PDF1 then edits to the Word file followed by an output to PDF2. You use Acrobat Pro to do a compare of PDF1 & PDF2.
Paper 1 scanned to image 1 to image 1 in PDF1 that gets OCR 1 and
Paper 2 scanned to image 2 to image 2 in PDF2 that gets OCR 2
being processed with Acrobat Pro's Compare can certainly be done.
But - well you've described what can be observed.
Be well...

Why is the Compare Document Feature is greyed out?

Hello Everyone,
I am trying to compare two very similar large documents. I want to use the compare document feature but it is greyed out. What would cause this to happen?
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Derek L.

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