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Compare PDF

Choose two versions of a document and this tool compares them page by page: which pages are identical, which changed, and where the first difference appears. It compares the text layer — layout and images are not compared. Runs fully in your browser — neither file is uploaded.

Two versions of the contract — what actually changed? Page-by-page answers with the differing words shown, not a shrug.

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Compare PDF — Page-by-Page Text Differences guide

Compare two PDFs page by page: see which pages are identical, which changed, which were added or removed — with word counts and the first difference on each changed page.

How to use this tool

  1. Choose or drop the original (A) and the newer version (B). Both are read in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.
  2. Click Compare & read the summary — pages compared, how many identical, how many changed — then the per-page table: status, word counts for each version, and for changed pages, the first differing words in context.

A worked example

A supplier returns a “final” contract. Compared against your draft, pages 1–8 and 10 match — but page 9 changed, and the first difference sits right in the payment-terms paragraph. That is the page you re-read carefully.

How it works

Comparison is textual and structural: each page’s text layer is extracted with positions normalised away, whitespace and line-break differences ignored (reflow is not a change), then pages are compared in order. Word counts give a quick size read; the first-difference snippet shows where reading should start. It answers “which pages differ and roughly where” — the question version review actually asks.

Frequently asked questions

Why does a page show changed when it looks identical?

Something in its text layer differs — a corrected typo, a changed number, or hidden text (some PDFs carry text you cannot see). The first-difference snippet shows the actual words involved.

What counts as “same”?

Identical word sequences after normalising whitespace and line breaks — reflowed layouts with the same words count as same, by design.

Can it compare formatting or images?

No — honestly, no. It compares text and structure. For images, Extract Images from both and compare those, or eyeball with PDF Viewer side by side.

The files have different page counts — handled?

Yes: pages beyond the shorter file are listed as added (in B) or removed, and the summary counts them separately.

Are the documents uploaded?

No — contract drafts are exactly the files that should never be uploaded; comparison runs fully in your browser.