Plicum Tools Compare PDF

Compare two PDFs and see what changed

A contract comes back “with a few changes” and you have to work out which. The comparison highlights the differences between the two versions instead of leaving you to spot them by eye.

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Load both versions

The original document and the one that came back.

Plicum compares

The text is compared and the differences highlighted.

Read the changes

You see what was added, removed or changed.

What happens to your file

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Compare PDF: frequently asked questions

The comparison is on the text: that is usually where the changes that matter live. A layout shift that does not change the words is not flagged as a substantive difference.

OCR is needed on both first: without a text layer there is nothing to compare. Bear in mind too that OCR inaccuracies can show up as differences that are not really in the document.

No: the comparison happens in the browser, on your device, and the files are not uploaded to Plicum servers.

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