An Approach for Implementing Web-Based Tool for Plagiarism Detection

Plagiarism detection is the process of detecting instances of plagiarism within a work or document. The widely distributed use of computers and internet has made it easier to copy the work of others without giving the credit of originality of the owner's document. The need for detecting plagiarism still exists and automated tools can provide valuable assistance in this task. Most such tools developed so far have focused on analyzing the content of the final work submitted by student.

In contrast this paper describes a web-based anti plagiarism approach to detect plagiarism at the academic level. This system will detect the plagiarism in student's assignments, seminar reports and project reports and it will also check for teacher's research papers, thesis submitted to the department in the various fields of research done at P.G level.