Background
I ran into a need to compare PDF documents.
Don’t even ask me how I backed up into this country road ditch, but “On God” I did.
Tools
| Vendor | Tool | URL | Platform | Pricing | Evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe ( http://adobe.com ) | |||||
| Adobe Acrobat | https://acrobat.adobe.com/ | Desktop | Commercial | Skipped Evaluating due to pricing | |
| Aspose ( https://www.aspose.com/ ) | |||||
| Aspose PDF Comparison | https://products.aspose.app/pdf/comparison | Online | Free | Took too long for my document based on it’s size | |
| CopyLeaks ( http://copyleaks.com ) | |||||
| CopyLeaks ( Individual ) | https://app.copyleaks.com/dashboard/v1?isGuest=true | Online | Limited Free Use & Commercial | Evaluation failed due to file size | |
| DiffChecker ( https://www.diffchecker.com/ ) | |||||
| Pdf-Compare | https://www.diffchecker.com/pdf-compare/ | Online | Free | The interface is a bit hard to read and use. | |
| Foxit Software ( https://www.foxit.com/ ) | |||||
| PDF Editor | https://www.foxit.com/pdf-editor/ | Online | Free | Skipped Evaluating due to pricing | |
| Draftable ( https://draftable.com/ ) | |||||
| Draftable Online | https://draftable.com/compare | Online | Free | Works beautifully well | |
| Draftable Desktop | https://draftable.com/desktop | Desktop | Commercial | Skipped Evaluating due to pricing | |
| Draftable API | https://draftable.com/rest-api | API | Commercial | Skipped Evaluating due to non-existence use case | |
| Qtrac Ltd. ( http://www.qtrac.eu/ ) | |||||
| DiffPDF | http://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf.html | Desktop | Limited Free Use & Commercial | Skipped Evaluating due to pricing | |
| PDF24.Org ( https://www.pdf24.org/ ) | |||||
| Compare-PDF | https://tools.pdf24.org/en/compare-pdf | Online | Limited Free Use & Commercial | Result of comparions is displayed in text. Unfortunately, the textually output is a bif diffcult to digest. |
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Indepth
Aspose
Images
Image – Compare PDF – Error – HTTP TimeOut
Image
Textual
There was an error while processing your files.
Http failure response for
https://api.products.aspose.app/pdf/webapi/ProcessStatus/30c723ca-c7ae-41bb-bd4f-28c126e6759a
: 0 Unknown Error
Compare other documents
Http failure response for
https://api.products.aspose.app/pdf/webapi/ProcessStatus/30c723ca-c7ae-41bb-bd4f-28c126e6759a
: 0 Unknown Error
Compare other documents
CopyLeaks
Outline
- Functionality
- Private Compare
- Requirement
- Account Registration
- Functionality Requirement
- Please Log in
You need to log in or create a new account in order to use this feature.
- Please Log in
- Functionality Requirement
- Account Registration
- Requirement
- Private Compare
Images
Image – Private Compare – “Please Log In. You need to log in or create a new account in order to use this feature.”
Textual
Please Log in
You need to log in or create a new account in order to use this feature.
You need to log in or create a new account in order to use this feature.
Image
Image – Error – You are all out of pages!
Textual
You’re all out of pages!
Create an account to see the full pages.
You need NaN pages to scan the entire document.
Create an account to see the full pages.
You need NaN pages to scan the entire document.
Image
DiffChecker
PDF-Compare
Outline
- Functionality
- Comparison Style
- Text
- Image
- OCR Text
- File Details
- Comparison Style
Images
Image – Comparison Style
Image – Comparison Style – OCR Text
Image
Textual
OCR diffing can take some time to complete. You may experience some slowness navigating to other tabs during loading.
PDF24.Org
PDF-Compare
Outline
- Functionality
- Comparison Mode
- Choices
- Textual
- Visual
- Choices
- Comparison Mode
- Usage
- Comparison Mode
- Choices
- Textual
Visual
- Assesment
- I could not select the Visual choice from the offered Comparison Modes
- Choices
- Comparison Mode
Images
Image – Comparison Mode
Summary
The lone product that I both evaluated and I am happy with is the online version of Draftable.
Referenced Work
- MakeUseof
- Tools Compate Two PDFs Side By Side
Link
- Tools Compate Two PDFs Side By Side
Learning in the Open 