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Table 2 Summary of strength and weakness of each Text-Matching Software Products

From: Some students plagiarism tricks, and tips for effective check

 

Strength

Weakness

Blackboard-SafeAssign

• Functional for Quoted plagiarism.

• Non-functional for Imaged-texts, Letter-like symbols, and Invisible letters plagiarisms.

Turnitin

• Functional for Letter-like symbols plagiarism.

• Non-functional for Imaged-texts, Quoted, and Invisible letters plagiarisms.

iThenticate

• Functional for Letter-like symbols plagiarism.

• Non-functional for Imaged-texts, Quoted, and Invisible letters plagiarisms.

Copyscape

• Functional for Quoted plagiarism.

• Non-functional for Imaged-texts, Letter-like symbols, and Invisible letters plagiarisms.

PlagAware

• Functional for Letter-like symbols and Quoted plagiarisms.

• Non-functional for Imaged-texts and Invisible letters plagiarisms.

PlagScan

• Partially functional for Imaged-texts and Invisible letters plagiarisms.

• Non-functional for Letter-like symbols and Quoted plagiarisms.

StrikePlagiarism. com

• Functional for Quoted and Invisible letters plagiarisms.

• Partially functional for Letter-like symbols plagiarism.

• Non-functional for Imaged-texts plagiarism.

• Long process time (about ten hours)

Unicheck

• Functional for Quoted plagiarism.

• Non-functional for Imaged-texts, Letter-like symbols, and Invisible letters plagiarisms.

Check-For-Plag (CFP)

• Functional for Quoted plagiarism.

• Non-functional for Imaged-texts, Letter-like symbols, and Invisible letters plagiarisms.