Aviation

PDF comparison for aviation

A revised maintenance procedure has to be read against the previous one, and every changed step matters. Compare the two revisions and get a list of exactly which steps, limits and warnings changed.

What aviation teams compare

Maintenance manuals, operations manuals, procedures, airworthiness documents.

What you get

How the comparison works

Text is extracted from both PDFs with its position and style. Repeating headers, footers and page numbers are removed, unchanged tables are recognised and held out, and paragraphs are aligned across the two documents before a character-level comparison. The output is a change list with page numbers, a redlined PDF and a side-by-side view with synced scrolling. The engine is deterministic: the same two documents always produce the same result.

Deployment options

Use the web tool for individual reviews, the REST API to trigger comparisons from your document system, or a private deployment in your own VPC or on-premises when documents cannot leave your network.

Questions from aviation teams

Does it report page numbers?

Yes. Every change carries the page it appears on in both the old and the new document.

Does it handle running headers and footers?

Yes. Repeating headers, footers and page numbers are recognised and excluded, so a changed revision date in the footer is reported once, not on every page.

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