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`comparediffs` provides a tools for downloading a PDF from two different sources, running pdfparanoia on the files, comparing the outputs byte-for-byte,
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and reporting the results.
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Typical usage is to first establish two `ssh` tunnels to hosts with access to the literature, e.g. via
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`ssh -D 1080 host1` and `ssh -D 1081 host2`. You can then invoke `comparediffs` via
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./comparediffs localhost:1080 localhost:1081 < urls
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where urls is a file containing one URL per line (e.g. the example file in this directory).
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`comparediffs` creates a subdirectory `pdf/`, in which is stores PDFs. It won't try to download the same PDF twice, so if you fix pdfparanoia you'll
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need to clean out some or all of this subdirectory.
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It's easy to see which PDFs pdfparanoia failed on, as it leaves copies of the scrubbed files with suffixes `.1.cleaned.pdf` and `.2.cleaned.pdf`.
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When pdfparanoia succeeds (or isn't even needed, because the downloaded files were identical), the scrubbed files are removed.
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