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A comparison profile bundles the comparison mode, the compared content types, tolerances, and optional processing steps of i-net PDFC. You can select and adapt it directly in the profile sidebar of a comparison. The visible values depend on the selected profile and on the installed and available plugins.

Optional groups and fields are shown only when the associated plugin and, where applicable, the required resources are available. No specific profile configuration represents a general default; the visible values depend on the selected profile and the available extensions.

The profile sidebar contains the current profile selection, the Create profile action, and the Actions menu in its header. The available actions depend on the profile origin, write protection, server restrictions, Drive availability, and permissions, so an action is not necessarily visible or enabled in every situation.

Depending on these conditions, the Actions menu can provide the following actions:

• Rename... and Edit description... change the profile data shown in the selector. These actions are not available for specifically identified standard profiles.
• Duplicate... creates a personal variant and is the intended way to adapt a profile that is not editable.
• Delete is available for personal profiles. For published profiles, the action requires the appropriate administration and editability.
• Publish is available only to configuration administrators when the server policy allows publishing. You can select users or groups for the publication.
• Load defaults resets a customized derivative of a provided profile to its default values.
• Restore deleted profiles appears only when a centrally provided template can be restored.
• Import offers Upload file... and, where available, From Drive....
• Export offers Download and, where available, Save to Drive.
• Show recommendations appears only when recommendations were previously hidden.

The server-side publication and permission settings for comparison profiles are described on the comparison profiles configuration page.

The profile selector groups entries by origin:

• Provided profiles: Profiles delivered with the installation are offered in a defined order.
• Shared profiles: Profiles published for specific users or groups are available according to the applicable permissions.
• Own profiles: These include personal profiles and, where applicable, the User Defined Settings of a comparison instance.

The selector shows the profile name and description. The Customized marker identifies a personal derivative of a provided profile. The Centrally provided marker identifies a centrally managed entry.

A warning marker indicates invalid or no longer resolvable profile values. If the interface offers a cleanup action, it removes or replaces those invalid values so that the profile can be used again. Duplicate a profile before changing it when it is not editable, published, or provided.

The Filter settings field filters the visible groups and options. When no visible setting matches the search text, the sidebar shows an empty result state.

Changes to individual sidebar fields are saved after a short delay directly in the profile or in the comparison's custom settings. When automatic re-comparison is enabled, i-net PDFC schedules a new comparison afterwards.

When automatic re-comparison is disabled, the sidebar marks the comparison settings as changed and shows Apply in the footer. This action is available only for a comparison that has already started and is editable. Validation errors are shown at the affected field and prevent that value from being saved or re-compared.

In the desktop interface, the sidebar can be pinned or shown when needed. In small layouts, it is displayed as an overlay dialog.

i-net PDFC can recommend suitable profile values during document analysis. Recommendations appear in their groups and only when the recommended value differs from the current profile value. Not every option produces recommendations; their scope and timing depend on installed recommendation-capable filters and on document analysis.

Select the checkbox next to a recommendation to apply its value. The change is saved like a normal profile change and starts a new comparison when automatic re-comparison is enabled or is marked for Apply otherwise.

Hide temporarily hides a recommendation. Never show stores the suppression locally for that setting. Use Actions → Show recommendations to show hidden recommendations individually or all at once.

Profiles are exported as XML and can be imported into i-net PDFC again. Import replaces the affected profile settings. Duplicate a provided or published profile when you want to test an import in an editable variant first.

The Paging and sections group defines how content and spatial arrangement are determined for the comparison.

The following values are available:

• Continuous documents compares content across document boundaries and ignores page boundaries. Position-based tolerances do not apply in this mode.
• Page by Page evaluates pages and positions against each other, making position-dependent settings available.

Combine large text replacements combines related large text changes into larger difference units instead of displaying many individual differences.

The optional selected pages, area filter, and header and footer extensions add their controls to this group when they are available.

The Compare text group switch enables or disables text comparison. The child settings have no effect while text comparison is disabled.

Text alignment tolerance (%) determines how much relative deviation in text alignment may be allowed when text is matched. The range is 0 to 30 percent in 0.5 percent steps. This setting is separate from position checking.

Check text positions is shown only in Page by Page mode. When enabled, Position tolerance (px) becomes available. You can use any value from 0 to 100 pixels within the permitted range; this setting has no fixed step.

The following checks are available under Show additional text options:

• Compare case-sensitively considers differences between uppercase and lowercase letters.
• Check font size considers differences in font size.
• Check text color considers differences in text color.
• Check font family considers differences in font family.
• Check text style considers differences in text style.
• Whitespace comparison determines how whitespace is considered:
  • Ignore whitespace details ignores details of individual whitespace characters.
  • Check layout whitespace considers whitespace resulting from the layout.
  • Check every whitespace considers every individual whitespace character.

The optional Ignore rotated text and Filter content extensions are also placed among the advanced text options.

The Compare lines and shapes group switch enables or disables line and shape comparison.

• Position tolerance ranges from 0 to 100 pixels in 0.5 pixel steps and is active only in Page by Page mode.
• Size tolerance ranges from 0 to 100 pixels in 0.5 pixel steps.
• Line width tolerance ranges from 0 to 100 pixels in 0.1 pixel steps.

The Compare images group switch enables or disables image comparison.

• Position tolerance ranges from 0 to 10 pixels in 0.5 pixel steps and is active only in Page by Page mode.
• Size tolerance ranges from 0 to 1 in 0.01 steps.
• Color tolerance ranges from 0 to 1 in 0.01 steps.
• Check image metadata includes image metadata in the comparison.
• Show image differences in detail displays additional details about image differences.

The Compare annotations group switch enables or disables annotation comparison.

Compare annotations in detail compares additional annotation attributes.

Compare alternative texts includes PDF tags and alternative texts. This option is independent of the Compare annotations group switch, so the check can also be effective when annotation comparison is not enabled. The terms comments and annotations describe the subject matter here but are not UI labels.

The Enhancements group collects installed optimization and verification plugins. It includes basic tables, invisible elements, multi-column layouts, text normalization, external links, and content grouping. The respective pages describe the individual options and their dependencies.

The OCR / Text recognition group is created only when OCR or font mapping repair is available. Depending on the installed and available extensions, the following values are available:

• Inactive - faster comparison performs the comparison without OCR-assisted processing or font mapping repair.
• Recognize text in images uses text recognition for text contained in images.
• Repair incorrect font mappings reconstructs damaged or unusable font and character mappings.
• Recognize text and repair font mappings combines text recognition with font mapping repair.

Document language can appear when OCR-assisted processing is active and more than one language resource is available. Error tolerance is active only for modes with text recognition. Deactivate CMAP is active only for modes with font mapping repair.

When neither OCR nor font mapping repair is available, the entire group is removed. A language selection that is available on its own is not shown as a separate OCR group in this case. Details are provided on the pages for OCR, font mapping repair, document language, and CMap.

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