Vedabase Diff Checker

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What is this?

This tool compares the original printed editions of Srila Prabhupada's books (scanned PDFs) against the current Vedabase digital text to find editorial changes made after his departure.

Each row shows one difference found between the two versions:

• Red box (Original) = text from the original printed book
• Blue box (Vedabase) = text from the current Vedabase edition

What do I need to do?

Click on a volume to expand it. Review each difference and decide:

• Leave checked (green) = this is a real editorial change, keep it
• Uncheck (red) = this is just noise (garbled text from the scanner, not a real change)

Most diffs are real changes. You only need to uncheck the ones that look like scanner garbage (random symbols, broken characters, nonsense text).

Important: saving your work

Click Save often! This saves your progress in your browser. You can close the page and come back later -- just click Load to restore where you left off.

If you clear your browser data or use a different browser, your progress will be lost. So when you finish a session, also click Export Checked to download a backup file.

When you are done

1. Click Export Checked -- this downloads a file with all the confirmed changes
2. Send that file back to me

That's it! You don't need any other software. Just this HTML file and a browser.