Compare two PDF using Ruby

Highly accurate Ruby diff checker to compare PDF files and find differences between them

Our powerful Ruby SDK allows you to find the difference between PDF documents and save the results to a convenient format for viewing. To verify our product capabilities, compare PDF files using this Ruby library and see the differences.

Compare PDF in Ruby

Our Ruby SDK is designed to give you the most accurate result, even though comparison is a complex function itself.

Sometimes you need to be sure that the document in the PDF format has not been changed, and if it has, you need to find out what the difference is. Just use our Ruby diff tool to compare two PDF files and find differences in whole words or single characters. Moreover, if only one character in a word has changed, this word will be marked as changed entirely.

Now you no longer need to spend time manually comparing PDF documents, and you can quickly find even small changes and export such diffs to a document in a convenient format.

Try to compare PDF documents

Check out how our solution to compare PDF files using Ruby SDK works. To achieve this, load the PDF files you want to compare and select the export file format – it will be automatically loaded after comparing.

Note that you need to accept all revisions in compared documents before calling the comparison method, as shown in our example:

Compare PDF files using Ruby and find the difference

Input files

Upload the compared file

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Upload the second file to compare

Output format

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require 'aspose_words_cloud'

AsposeWordsCloud.configure do |config|
  config.client_data['ClientId'] = '####-####-####-####-####'
  config.client_data['ClientSecret'] = '##################'
end
@words_api = WordsAPI.new
file_name1= 'Input1.pdf'
file_name2= 'Input2.pdf'
file_result= 'Output.pdf'

#  Upload documents to cloud storage.
first_document_content = File.open(file_name1)
upload_first_file_request =
    UploadFileRequest.new(file_content: first_document_content, path: file_name1)
@words_api.upload_file(upload_first_file_request)

second_document_content = File.open(file_name2)
upload_second_file_request =
    UploadFileRequest.new(file_content: second_document_content, path: file_name2)
@words_api.upload_file(upload_second_file_request)

#  Compare documents in cloud.
compare_data_options =
    CompareData.new({:Author => 'author',
        :FileReference => AsposeWordsCloud::FileReference.fromRemoteFilePath(file_name2)})
compare_document_request =
    CompareDocumentRequest.new(
	name: file_name1, compare_data: compare_data_options, dest_file_name: file_result)
@words_api.compare_document(compare_document_request)

#  Download result document from cloud storage.
download_file_request = DownloadFileRequest.new(path: file_result)
download_file_result = @words_api.download_file(download_file_request)
File.open('compareResult.pdf', 'wb').write(download_file_result)

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How to Compare two text files

Install Aspose.Words Cloud for Ruby
Add a library reference (import the library) to your Ruby project
Load two PDF documents to compare
Call the compare_document() method to compare PDF docs
Download the result document from the cloud storage

Ruby library to use compare

Install Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for Ruby using RubyGems hosting service. Run gem install aspose_words_cloud to install the package. As an alternative, you can manually clone Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for Ruby source code from GitHub and use it in your project. Please follow these Instructions to quickly get the necessary security credentials and access our REST API.