1. Need to
Compare
Documents or
Drawings?
PDF and TIFF Drawing Comparison Software
©DocuFi 2013-2014

2. If your files are PDF or TIFF…

3. Use ComPara:
“a tool to compare or
convert multipage
drawing sets, identify or
tag the differences, and
publish them for easy
communication with
your teams and
suppliers”

4. With Overlay View
See the differences in the drawings shown in color.

5. With Side-by-Side View
Visually inspect to compare drawings.

6. ComPara Lets you Fine-tune your
Viewing with Easy Navigation Tools:
• Easily navigate or magnify your view of a
large drawing.
• Navigation is coordinated in both windows
when in side-by-side view.

7. And You Can Compare Multipage
Drawing Sets:
Just as easy to navigate through and compare multipage drawing sets

8. And You Can Compare Multipage
Drawing Sets:
Even compare files when the pages are out of order by selecting them
from the thumbnails.

9. Now that you can see two
drawings, what can you do?

10. Tag the Differences
Select a difference with the “tag differences” button and
give it a name to create a “difference” and add it to the
list of differences.

11. Tag the Differences
See a thumbnail of
the tagged
differences listed at
the bottom of the
screen.
Mouse over the
list to quickly go
though the
differences.

12. Publish the Tags/Differences
Want to share the differences
that you’ve found with co-
workers or suppliers?
Just select the “Publish to PDF”
option to create a PDF file that
contains an index page of the
drawing with the tags you
created and separate pages
showing each tag.
See….

13. Publish the Tags/Differences
Index of Tags is Published in a PDF File

14. And…
Tagged differences are saved
as PDF bookmarks when
published allowing users to
quickly locate differences in
drawings.
Publish the Tags/Differences

15. • Take measurements of distances and rectangular areas
on your documents to perform takeoff measurements
and tolerance checks.
• With the Circle Measure tool select two points on the
the document and ComPara will draw a circle in
accordance to your Interference settings to check for
interference issues.
Measure

16. First: Set the Calibration
Select your
measurement unit
Select a known
measurement and
enter the distance

17. Next: Select Line or Square Tool
And measure away

18. Convert File Formats
• PDF to TIFF or JPG and TIFF to PDF or JPG
• Side-by-side review of the Original and Converted files
• Convert one page or all pages of a multipage file

19. Manage Pages
• Insert or replace pages from other files
• Delete pages
• Extract pages and save as separate files
• Rotate pages

20. Apply 2D Adaptive Thresholding
(to a whole document or a specific area)
Adaptive thresholding assists in cleaning “dirty”
documents or documents that have a colored or grayscale
background which interferes with the foreground data

21. Apply Adaptive Thresholding
(to a whole document or a specific area)
ComPara let’s you test thresholding
settings and see the differences.
Adaptive thresholding assists in cleaning “dirty”
documents or documents that have a colored or grayscale
background which interferes with the foreground data

22. ComPara Makes an ORAPPLE Out of
your Drawing Differences!
• Tag Differences
• Publish Differences
• Measure
• Manage Pages
• Apply Adaptive Thresholding
• Convert Files:
PDF to TIFF/JPG
TIFF to PDF/JPG
But wait, there’s more…

23. Need More than Compare?
Check out ReVisa to:
• Edit TIFF, PDF and CALS drawings and documents.
• Insert raster drafting objects such as text, ellipses & polygons
• Insert accurately with grid and ortho snap
• Move, copy, scale, and rotate selected or new raster
• Add basic geometry such as lines, circles, arcs, and rectangles
• Fill patterns with cross hatch, translucency, border styles and
varying pen widths
• Erase areas using rubout, rectangle area, polygon windows, and
circle & ellipse fills
• Undo multiple levels to repair undesired results
• Enhance or clean up including deskew, despeckle, crop and
adaptive thresholding
And all the functions of ComPara

24. Learn More about Raster Editing, Conversion, Document
Imaging and More

25. By DocuFi,
standing out in the crowd
30 years’ experience in the Document Imaging market.
Find out more at ComPara, ReVisa and
www.docufi.com

26. Image Credits
• Ollesvensson, “apples 2”, http://bit.ly/1b5HaLR
• ~kajsa~ “oranges”, http://bit.ly/HyosU8
• Muffet, “apples”, http://bit.ly/1dLAmp4
• Malkav, “orange wedge”, http://bit.ly/1hhaPZF
• Matthew Reid, “apples and oranges 2”, http://bit.ly/HuVqo7
• Rmgirardin, “Apple-Orange Hybrid”, http://bit.ly/1fhQpet
• MicroAssist “Apples and Oranges”, http://bit.ly/17KPimb
• mysza831, “In the Garden of Eden”, http://bit.ly/1b9Rvoq
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