Compare PDFs

How to use it

1. 1.Pick the baseline and the revised file, and check their names, dates, and page counts first.
2. 2.Run the comparison and read the additions, removals, moves, and visual changes in document order.
3. 3.Check each difference that matters against both pages, and note what needs approval or correcting.

Options

• Which file is the baseline decides what counts as an addition and what counts as a removal.
• Seeing the pages next to the list separates a formatting shift from a real edit.

Limitations

• Reflowed text, a substituted font, scan noise, or a shifted page can produce a pile of differences that mean nothing.
• The tool finds the differences. Whether one matters is your call.

Common questions