arXiv · 2604.19770
Hybrid Multi-Phase Page Matching and Multi-Layer Diff Detection for Japanese Building Permit Document Review
Abstract
We present a hybrid multi-phase page matching algorithm for automated comparison of Japanese building permit document sets. Building permit review in Japan requires cross-referencing large PDF document sets across revision cycles, a process that is labor-intensive and error-prone when performed manually. The algorithm combines longest common subsequence (LCS) structural alignment, a seven-phase consensus matching pipeline, and a dynamic programming optimal alignment stage to robustly pair pages across revisions even when page order, numbering, or content changes substantially. A subsequent multi-layer diff engine -- comprising text-level, table-level, and pixel-level visual differencing -- produces highlighted difference reports. Evaluation on real-world permit document sets achieves F1=0.80 and precision=1.00 on a manually annotated ground-truth benchmark, with zero false-positive matched pairs.
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Mitsumasa Wada. 2026-03-27. Hybrid Multi-Phase Page Matching and Multi-Layer Diff Detection for Japanese Building Permit Document Review. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19770
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