List of programs that can compare pdfs
- diff-pdf = decided on this as its free, multi platform, works and easy to use
- pdftotext = free, multi platform but requires extra step of converting pdf to text
- diffpdf = paid software
$ brew install diff-pdf
Installing diff-pdf on alpine (first time)
List of research sites: stackoverflow, ask ubuntu# install compilation tools
$ apk add make autoconf automake g++ gawk
# install required libraries
$ apk add glib-dev poppler-dev poppler-utils wxgtk-dev
# get codebase to generate binary
$ git clone https://github.com/vslavik/diff-pdf.git
$ cd diff-pdf
# generate configure script
$ ./bootstrap
# generate makefile
$ ./configure
# generate binary (diff-pdf)
$ make