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View two PDF files side by side, page by page, and visually highlight where their content differs — processed entirely in your browser.

How It Works

How Compare PDF Works

This tool runs entirely client-side: neither PDF is uploaded to a server. Both files are opened and rendered with PDF.js, displaying matching page numbers from each document next to each other so you can visually scan for differences as you navigate through the pages.

When you run "Highlight Differences," both currently displayed pages are rendered to identical-sized canvases, and the tool performs a pixel-by-pixel comparison — reading the RGB color values at every pixel position in both images and flagging any pair where the combined color difference exceeds a threshold.

Differing pixels are highlighted directly on an overlay canvas, and a percentage is calculated showing roughly what portion of the page differs, giving you a quick visual and quantitative signal of how much changed between the two versions of that page.

Worked Example

See It In Action

Comparing page 3 of an original contract against a revised version where one paragraph was reworded shows the two pages side by side, and running "Highlight Differences" visually marks the reworded paragraph's pixels while reporting that roughly 4.2% of the page differs.
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Are my PDFs uploaded to a server?
No — both files stay entirely in your browser. Rendering and comparison are done locally using PDF.js and canvas pixel analysis.
Does this compare text content, or just how the page looks visually?
It's a visual (pixel-based) comparison, not a text or word-level diff — it flags any area where the rendered appearance of the two pages differs, whether that's changed text, a moved image, or reformatted layout.
Can it compare PDFs with a different number of pages?
You can navigate each document independently and compare any page from one against any page from the other — the tool doesn't require both files to have matching page counts.