FPdfDiff implements page alignment, UTF-16 text changes and connected visual regions used by CompareWith
AlignPdfDiffPages pairs exact text, geometry and visual fingerprints through a bounded longest common subsequence, then identifies remaining exact matches as moves and pairs unmatched gaps as modifications
Duplicate pages are paired deterministically; a page that moves and changes at the same time is not guaranteed to be identified as a move
BuildPdfDiffTextChanges reports zero-based UTF-16 offsets and lengths; character mode keeps surrogate pairs together and word mode groups whitespace separately from other characters
BuildPdfDiffPixelRegions groups connected changed tiles into exclusive-right/bottom pixel rectangles; these regions can include unchanged pixels inside a tile
Alignment accepts at most 4,096 pages per side and 16,777,216 cells; text accepts at most 65,536 tokens and 16,777,216 UTF-16 units, with explicit truncation when selected detail budgets are exhausted
type
TPdfDiffPageKind= (dpkMatched, dpkModified, dpkMoved, dpkInserted, dpkDeleted);
TPdfDiffTextMode= (dtmNone, dtmCharacters, dtmWords);
TPdfDiffPageSignature= record
Text: WideString;
VisualHash: UInt64;
Width, Height: Single;
Rotation: Integer;
end;
TPdfDiffPageSignatures= array of TPdfDiffPageSignature;
TPdfDiffPagePair= record
LeftPageIndex, RightPageIndex: Integer;
Kind: TPdfDiffPageKind;
end;
TPdfDiffPagePairs= array of TPdfDiffPagePair;
// Offsets and lengths count UTF-16 code units, starting at zero
TPdfDiffTextChange= record
LeftStart, LeftLength, RightStart, RightLength: Integer;
end;
TPdfDiffTextChanges= array of TPdfDiffTextChange;
TPdfDiffPixelRegion= record
Left, Top, Right, Bottom: Integer;
end;
TPdfDiffPixelRegions= array of TPdfDiffPixelRegion;
function AlignPdfDiffPages(const Left, Right: TPdfDiffPageSignatures;
MaxCells: Integer): TPdfDiffPagePairs;
function BuildPdfDiffTextChanges(const Left, Right: WideString;
Mode: TPdfDiffTextMode; MaxCells, MaxTokens: Integer;
out Truncated: Boolean): TPdfDiffTextChanges;
function BuildPdfDiffPixelRegions(const Mask: TBytes; Width, Height,
TileSize, MaxRegions: Integer; out Truncated: Boolean): TPdfDiffPixelRegions;