cstester - a tool for testing loading and painting of documents

Ganesh Paramasivam ganesh at crystalfab.com
Tue Jan 18 13:47:41 GMT 2011


There seems to be a tool which does something similar to what I was thinking
http://www.inetsoftware.de/other-products/pdf-content-comparer

i.e parse the pdf file and look for similarities in the underlying elements.

I haven't used this though. So not sure whether it would work.

- Ganesh

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 January 2011, Ganesh Paramasivam wrote:
>> Just a thought ( If this tool development is still in a early phase ).
>>
>> Wouldn't this be easier with PDF instead of JPG. PDF ( If I'm right )
>> is nothing but a description of the layout data and handling PDF is
>> more programming friendly ( i.e there are enough libraries available
>> to read PDF ) than JPG's.
>
> Do you know of a good way to compare pdf's for similarity?
>
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