[Python] Is there any way that I can identify whether the PDF is edited/tampered and the exact...

I am working on identifying forgery/tampering in bank statements PDF documents. Info metadata and XMP metadata is not always present in the PDFs that I have so I am not able to create any generalized rule to identify tampered PDFs. I am using Python libraries such as PyMuPDF, PDFMiner, PyPDF2 etc.

I have 2 questions:

1. Is there any concrete way to identify whether the PDF is tampered (using Python or any other opensource technology) ?
2. If the PDF is tampered then which part of the PDF has been tampered (using Python or any other opensource technology)?

Attaching 2 PDFs for reference -

original :- "sbi statment_out2.pdf" link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DoWAKYcCudRO-Cwjbgf7RjiJUsF3DD3s/view?usp=sharing

Tampered using Sejda online editor :- "sbi statment_out2_Sejda_edited.pdf link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J4eRy9tO3jN8AqEWNrKXtn40G6vdH5G3/view?usp=sharing

In tempered PDF, I have edited '2,412.00' under 'Credit' column to '12.00'.

Kindly let me know in case any open source solution, preferably in Python.

Thanks.

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