diffpdf

compare two PDF files textually or visually

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/diffpdf.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install diffpdf
Ubuntu
apt-get install diffpdf
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S diffpdf
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install diffpdf
Fedora
dnf install diffpdf
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install diffpdf
Raspbian
apt-get install diffpdf

diffpdf

compare two PDF files textually or visually

DiffPDF is used to compare two PDF files. By default the comparison is of the text on each pair of pages, but comparing the appearance of pages is also supported (for example, if a diagram is changed or a paragraph reformatted). It is also possible to compare particular pages or page ranges. For example, if there are two versions of a PDF file, one with pages 1-12 and the other with pages 1-13 because of an extra page having been added as page 4, they can be compared by specifying two page ranges, 1-12 for the first and 1-3, 5-13 for the second. This will make DiffPDF compare pages in the pairs (1, 1), (2, 2), (3, 3), (4, 5), (5, 6), and so on, to (12, 13).