ByteScout PDF Suite – C++ – Compare PDF Documents with PDF Extractor SDK

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These source code samples are assembled by their programming language and functions they use. ByteScout PDF Suite was created to assist compare PDF documents with PDF extractor SDK in C++. ByteScout PDF Suite is the set that includes 6 SDK products to work with PDF from generating rich PDF reports to extracting data from PDF documents and converting them to HTML. This bundle includes PDF (Generator) SDK, PDF Renderer SDK, PDF Extractor SDK, PDF to HTML SDK, PDF Viewer SDK and PDF Generator SDK for Javascript.

If you want to quickly learn then these fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout PDF Suite for C++ plus the guideline and the C++ code below will help you quickly learn compare PDF documents with PDF extractor SDK. If you want to implement this functionality, you should copy and paste code below into your app using code editor. Then compile and run your application. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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CPPExample.cpp

      	#include "stdafx.h"
	#include "comip.h"

	#import "c:\\Program Files\\Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK\\net4.00\\Bytescout.PDFExtractor.tlb" raw_interfaces_only
	
	using namespace Bytescout_PDFExtractor;

	int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
	{
		// Initialize COM.
		HRESULT hr = CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED);

		// Load first document
		_TextExtractorPtr document1(__uuidof(TextExtractor));
		document1->put_RegistrationName(_bstr_t(L"DEMO"));
		document1->put_RegistrationKey(_bstr_t(L"DEMO"));
		document1->LoadDocumentFromFile(_bstr_t(L"..\\..\\comparison1.pdf"));

		// Load second  document
		_TextExtractorPtr document2(__uuidof(TextExtractor));
		document2->put_RegistrationName(_bstr_t(L"DEMO"));
		document2->put_RegistrationKey(_bstr_t(L"DEMO"));
		document2->LoadDocumentFromFile(_bstr_t(L"..\\..\\comparison2.pdf"));

		// Compare documents
		_TextComparerPtr comparer(__uuidof(TextComparer));
		comparer->put_RegistrationName(_bstr_t(L"DEMO"));
		comparer->put_RegistrationKey(_bstr_t(L"DEMO"));
		DECIMAL result;
		comparer->Compare((_BaseTextExtractorPtr) document1, (_BaseTextExtractorPtr) document2, &result);

		// Generate report
		VARIANT_BOOL ok;
		comparer->GenerateHtmlReport_2(_bstr_t(L"report.html"), &ok);

		document1->Release();
		document2->Release();
		comparer->Release();

		CoUninitialize();

		return 0;
	}

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stdafx.cpp

      // stdafx.cpp : source file that includes just the standard includes
// CPPExample.pch will be the pre-compiled header
// stdafx.obj will contain the pre-compiled type information

#include "stdafx.h"

// TODO: reference any additional headers you need in STDAFX.H
// and not in this file

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stdafx.h

      // stdafx.h : include file for standard system include files,
// or project specific include files that are used frequently, but
// are changed infrequently
//

#pragma once

#include "targetver.h"

#include <stdio.h>
#include <tchar.h>



// TODO: reference additional headers your program requires here

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targetver.h

      #pragma once

// Including SDKDDKVer.h defines the highest available Windows platform.

// If you wish to build your application for a previous Windows platform, include WinSDKVer.h and
// set the _WIN32_WINNT macro to the platform you wish to support before including SDKDDKVer.h.

#include <SDKDDKVer.h>