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Inspiring
Feb 19, 2022 1:34 PM UTC
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Combining PDFs and sorting similar pages

I have two PDF files and contents are partly overlapping, i.e. (quite a) number of pages are both PDF files.
I might combine both files into a 3rd one.
But, from that point on, how would I need to proceed to have duplicate pages removed?
Is there some way of sorting, so duplicates are 'grouped' can be deleted in a more convenient way, rather than scrolling thru entire PDF back and forth.

These are fairly large (150-200 pages) PDF files from scanned documents.
Acrobat Pro 2020

 

Thanks.

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Legend
Feb 19, 2022 3:18 PM UTC

Detecting duplicates is a major challenge. Can't see a simple way.

ALSO, they won't actually be duplicates; the scanning might be 0.1 mm different and rotated by 0.5 degree, which would make the contents of the page absolutely different (as a graphic).

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Legend
Feb 19, 2022 3:18 PM UTC

Detecting duplicates is a major challenge. Can't see a simple way.

ALSO, they won't actually be duplicates; the scanning might be 0.1 mm different and rotated by 0.5 degree, which would make the contents of the page absolutely different (as a graphic).

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adwul62Author
Inspiring
Feb 20, 2022 6:21 AM UTC

Thank you.

Bad luck then. I was already afraid for this.
It was a 'long shot'.  I was hoping that, based on OCR/Page recognition, keywords in pages, pages could be indexed and sorted based on some sort of similarity.

Anyway, thanks again.

 

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try67
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Feb 20, 2022 9:29 AM UTC

If the results of the OCR are relatively good then it should be possible.

Can you share a sample file with us?

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