diffoscope will try to get to the bottom of what makes files or directories
different. It will recursively unpack archives of many kinds and transform
various binary formats into more human-readable form to compare them. It can
compare two tarballs, ISO images, or PDF just as easily.

It can be scripted through error codes, and a report can be produced with the
detected differences. The report can be text or HTML.  When no type of report
has been selected, diffoscope defaults to write a text report on the standard
output.

diffoscope was initially started by the "reproducible builds" Debian project and
now being developed as part of the (wider) "Reproducible Builds" initiative. It
is meant to be able to quickly understand why two builds of the same package
produce different outputs. diffoscope was previously named debbindiff.