Plagiarism Detector Community

UniCode Anti Cheating Engine is aimed at detecting/prevent cheating with homoglyphs. Different alphabets have similarly-looking characters, that are sometimes used to avoid Plagiarism detection. For example: Latin "a" looks similar to Cyrillic "а", but a program considers these different letters.

UACE detects the use of symbols, that are not expected for a given language and will attempt normalizing them to enable the check.

"Warn if % is above" allows you to change the warning  threshold. Warning is present both in reports and in the list of reports in Advanced Reports Viewer.
"Normalize if is above" - changes the normalization threshold. If the % of such symbols is above, the program will replace "foreign" symbols with homoglyphs from the expected alphabet.

Example of a valid case, when it is actually expected to have "foreign" symbols in a document, is when citing books or papers in other languages.

UACE section is a report includes status for the feature (was in on or off), detection percentage before and after  normalization, automatically generated assessment recommendation and  allows to view the full list of all characters present in the document with unicode descriptions.

Over the years since the initial discussion some additional features have been added to the software that require more data uploaded to our server. To keep things transparent I'd list some important changes here.
The main thing remains the same: no document checked with the Internet check of Plagiarism Detector is stored in any database to run checks against in the future.

Some cases when additional information, the file itself or your report is uploaded to our servers:
1. Text cannot be extracted from a document on your side (in case all local text extractors failed). The file is uploaded to our servers for text extraction and is deleted as soon as the task is completed.
2. Report to PDF export - this feature is working server-side, so any report exported to PDF is uploaded to our servers and the resulting PDF is then downloaded from our servers. The PDF will be available on our servers for a few hours and then deleted. Only the program that uploaded the file has the link to the PDF.
3. Report-sharing - if a client decides to share a report online - it will be stored on our servers for a long time and available by the link the client shares. These reports can only be accessible via the link provided, so if you share the link - be ready for search engines to index it!
4. We store statistical information on reports, which may include options used, file names and check result percentages (but not the text!). These are only used internally to detect possible problems and otherwise improve the program.
5. We consider the option to sometimes temporarily, anonymously and securely save clients' documents or reports for internal development or testing needs only. As of the moment of writing we don't have such on option. Some features we'd like to add to the program require a lot of real-world material to implement. For example we need documents with obfuscation cheating suspected to counter it, or documents for the program to start differentiating between "various kinds of Plagiarism".

If you have any concerns regarding any of these points - feel free to contact our support service in this regard.

Currently Plagiarism Detector Supports the following types of Plagiarism Checks:

1. Global Internet Check (includes  SciPap check).
2. Custom Database Check (PDAS) (Chek against your own PDAS Database, that allows to store very large amounts of documents).
3. Combined Check [Internet + PDAS Database].
4. Check against a Local Folder
5. Check 2 Documents against each other.
6. Check against our internal scientific papers Database (SciPap).

Thank you for your interest in our software!
1. You can add a site to the "inclusion list" to be analyzed or you can add this to the "exclusion list" to not be analyzed. The later is often used to find where a document has been copied to - you exclude the valid site you have published the document at yourself and check for other sites. Both these lists are managed from a tab at the last stage of the Step-By-Step Wizard.
Besides, with enabled URL-quotation detection all text found at a given URL added to the document - will be highlighted as Referenced.

2. PDAS stands for Plagiarism Detector Accumulator Server. It is designed to maintain your own document database to check against.
It is a separate software that Plagiarism Detector can connect to to perform these types of checks.

PDAS is not required for regular Internet checks.
PDAS is required for Database checks only.

Plagiarism Detector can connect to PDAS, if there is PDAS on the network.

You can download the PDAS Demo from our site, currently it allows to store 1000 documents and requires Windows 10 to  run.
PDAS licenses are to  be purchased separately.

Feel free to ask any additional questions.

Hi!
I want to purchase PRO version of your software. Before I'll make this I want to know the following:
1.  if I found that a portion of text is plagiarism from a particular website can I add that site to be process?
2. What is PDAS License? Is an extended database? Do I have to purchase extra?

Thank you for this post. We are working on fixing this situation that some our clients have.
What happens is that Windows "ifilters" that allow text extraction from docx documents are failing. It is most likely due to some recent Microsoft's patch - we only see Windows 10 and latest office versions users having this problem.

What makes it worse is the fact that we don't have this problem in any of our testing environments. So we heavily rely on cooperation from our clients to fix this.

If you have this problem - please contact our support via e-mail.

Unable to perform plagiarism check because document fails to load. Software says "Single document (pair) error". Error reason:Generic error
Please solve this problem. 

Thank you. I will contact you via email.
Have a nice day.

Please contact us via our support e-mail, providing the report that you get. We will look into it.

I'm sorry for the delayed reply.

In such cases - please contact us via our support e-mail, mentioning your license code.

I'm sorry for the delayed reply.