vslavik/diff-pdf
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A simple tool for visually comparing two PDF files
5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2022-08-06 · latest 2025-04-14
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If you're on your laptop, there's already a great tool for diffing PDF tools: https://github.com/vslavik/diff-pdf It has a great 'view' mode which shows the two PDFs overlaid in different colors: diff-pdf --view a.pdf b.pdf I wanted…
comment by rahimnathwani · 2025-04-14 · in Show HN: PDF Diff Tool – Show differences between two PDF files visually -
…https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72144353/how-to-diff-pdf... https://vslavik.github.io/diff-pdf/ https://github.com/vslavik/diff-pdf https://www.google.com/search?q=pdf+diff
comment by peter_d_sherman · 2024-03-11 · in GitHub Topic: pdf-comparison (a.k.a. PDF compare, PDF diff, etc.) -
Open source & Linux alternatives: https://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf-foss.html https://github.com/vslavik/diff-pdf https://vslavik.github.io/diff-pdf/
comment by yencabulator · 2023-07-21 · in Show HN: PDF Differ -
…that I usually use for this. (Seems to be relatively popular; 1.4k stars on GitHub: https://github.com/vslavik/diff-pdf )
comment by svat · 2022-08-06 · in Show HN: PDF-Diff - Visualize any differences between two PDFs