Redline Comparison (Track-Changes Style)
Compare two PDFs and produce an inline-redline report — deleted text struck through in red, inserted text underlined in green.
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How does the Redline Comparison (Track-Changes Style) work?
Compare two PDFs and produce a clean redline report in classic legal track-changes form: removed text drawn in red with a strikethrough line, newly-inserted text drawn in green with an underline. Files are paired alphabetically by name (so name them sensibly — "v1-old.pdf" and "v2-new.pdf"), then diffed page-by-page using a line-level alignment. The output is a single PDF with a cover summary plus one page per page-of-comparison. Use Compare Two PDFs (the existing tool) if you want a side-by-side per-page split instead of inline redline.
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