PDFCompareTrueDiff 1.0.1

A PDF comparison tool which helps to view the differences side-by-side

Project Description

PDFCompareTrueDiff

This is a python package which can be used to compare and highlight the differences between two PDFs.

Installation

• Make sure your python version is >= 3.8

• Make sure you have upgraded your pip version py -m pip install --upgrade pip

Requirements

• For virtual environments in windows, make sure poppler is installed venv - pip install poppler
• For linux sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
• For conda conda install -c conda-forge poppler

From Pypi

pip install PDFCompareTrueDiff

The input is two PDF files along with the path where the final image need to be saved. The output will have a folder which contain the equalized PDF and a horizontally stacked image of both PDFs to give a side-by-side comparison of each page. The image will be saved as 'Final.png'

Sample code

import PDFCompareTrueDiff
input1 = "path to first PDF"
input2 = "path to second PDF"
output = "path to the directory to save the equalized PDFs and final image"
PDFCompareTrueDiff.document_equalizer(input1, input2, output)