Hi Leonard, Somehow I never received your response directly but happen to see it in the archive.
Anyway, I am trying to come up with a utility that can compare the two PDF files. I am OK to have utility with limitations. My understanding is that the success of this effort will depend on how the two PDF files were generated. For my environment, the PDF files are supposed to be relatively simple in contents and will have only text information. I was thinking of kind of normalizing the contents by removing the formating info (though not sure if that's feasible and how I would do that) and then compare the contents only. I'll definitely appreciate your inputs. regards Praveen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At 04:35 AM 5/13/2004, Praveen Sharma wrote: >> I was just wondering if somebody has tried comparing two PDF documents and can share the experience/knowledge. You mean manually using Adobe Acrobat to do it, or with a text editor? If so, it is pretty straightforward... Or are you talking about writing software to compare two PDF documents? If so, it is quite a complex thing to implement correctly due to how PDF works....I've attempted multiple attempts to solve the problem and it is certainly solvable but each options has pros and cons... Leonard --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Rosenthol <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
