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PDiff Express

Compare two PDF documents - fast, incredibly easy and reliable! Just drop two PDF icons into the PDiff window... and instantly see the comparison results. Comparing texts has never been this easy!

What exactly has changed, what is really the same? How often do you get back a document and are still uncertain about the changes? Why is it such a hard task to juggle with revisions edited by many authors? If you just want to see what happened, then PDiff is made for you! 
 
PDiff allows you to compare the content of two PDFs in order to pinpoint all textual changes. Just drag and drop two versions into PDiff and you will see all differences at a glance. This still works if fonts, layout, hyphenation or even page breaks were altered. 
 
 
PDiff is an ideal solution to compare versions of your
 
  • important office documents
  • mission critical technical manuals
  • legal texts and business contracts
  • financial reports
  • manuscripts and thesis texts
  • scientific articles, reports, and proceedings
  • fictional books and non-fiction books
  • copywriting to ready-to-print layout

Key Features 

  • fast and reliable PDF text comparison for multipage documents
  • highlighting of differences (changes, insertions, and deletions) in the PDF files
  • text synopsis display with synchronized text and highlighted differences
  • synchronized side-by-side display of two PDFs: see corresponding words in all displays by hovering with the mouse over the text
  • comparison handles layout changes (e.g. single vs. multi column), font, size and style changes, added hyphenation and different page breaks
  • spot light display to distinguish text from non-text areas
  • reformatting of text according to layout of the other document
  • full text search function
  • easy-to-use interface for best user experience
  • full Unicode support for international scripts

 

Interface Languages
 

English, German

 
 

Available on Mac App Store

PDiff for Mac is available on the Mac App Store.

 

Need more features?

Do you need more features such as other input formats (RTF, DOC/DOCX, HTML), automation or printed proof reports? Then have a look at our PDiff Professional at http://www.csci.de/en/pdiffpro.

 

Version History

Version 1.4:

  • Fixed a memory leak

Version 1.3: 

  • Speed-up by factor 3 or more (depending on number of CPU cores)

Version 1.2:

  • Fix for media box origin different from (0,0)

Version 1.1:

  • Improved display of differences only (switch under the text synopsis display). Hover over a diff in the lower window pane to jump directly to its position in the PDF.
  • Additional GUI elements

Version 1.0:

  • Initial release