Supported file formats

[Mike Sanders]

Plagiarism Detector deals with documents in different formats and web-pages.

Following document formats are supported:

*.docx - Microsoft Word (newest versions)
*.pptx - Microsoft Word (newest versions)
*.txt- Plain Text [* requires correct encoding detection]
*.rtf - Ritch text Format
*.doc - Microsoft Word (older versions)
*.htm *.html *.asp *.php - web  pages [* requires correct encoding detection]
*.pdf - Adobe PDF [requires text, not images as text]
*.odt - Open Office Document


97% of all documents are going to be processed Ok.

Most common unsupported file type is rasterized *.pdf.
Such document contains images not text, thus requires OCR processing.

For example (you can download it using the at the bottom):