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Posted to users@pdfbox.apache.org by Gilad Denneboom <gi...@gmail.com> on 2021/08/09 08:33:21 UTC

Re: can pdfbox compare differences between 2 pdfs

You can also do a pure textual comparison. Extract the text of each page
and compare them to each other.

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 3:55 PM chitgoks <ch...@gmail.com> wrote:

> i wish to ask if pdfbox can support this scenario.
>
> Say, pdf 1 page 4
>
> pdf 2 is a copy of pdf 1 but with additional pages. user adds 3 pages to
> it. so page 4 will be on page 7.
>
> is there a way to detect what page # (which is page 7) in pdf 2 based on
> pdf 1's (page 4)?
>