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		mksreddy on July 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Diff-pdf: tool to visually compare two PDFs Wouldn’t exporting pages to images and using pixel diff accurately identify differences in PDF’s?

netsharc on July 2, 2024 [–]

I guess it depends on the use case. Imagine adding an extra sentence in the second PDF, and this causes the paragraph to have 6 instead of 5 lines, and the next paragraph begins a line further down, and the last paragraph of that page ends up in the next page, etc...

mksreddy on July 2, 2024 | [–]

Thanks. That helped understand it better.

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