Compare PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files FAQ

Can Compare Suite compare PDF file with retaining formatting? 

Not yet. Compare Suite compares PDF files as a plain text documents.

Can PDF files be opened without giving password?
Compare Suite demands password only if pdf file is protected with password. If you don't know the password you cannot open it with neither Adobe Acrobat nor with Compare Suite. 

I want to compare a PDF and some txt (or Word or Excel) file, if is it possible?
Yes, Compare Suite can compare PDF and txt files (as well as well as it can compare pdf and htm, or pdf and doc).

Compare badly structured Adobe Acrobat PDF files with Microsoft Word DOC files.

Once you need to compare .pdf file with another one, you might have some problems with document structure and converting from PDF to text is uneasy task and resulted document is structured badly. AKS suggest some solutions that can help you do effective comparison of PDF document with .doc files or other.

Compare two or three column PDF files.

With Compare Suite you can compare PDF files that has two or three columns. It means that any PDF with columns can be compared to any word or .htm file

More information about comparing documents:

File comparison in paperless office -- comparing .pdf, .doc, .xls 

Compare documents after scan and OCR.