Plagiarism Checker

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  Two same text files are added (100% similarity)

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  Two different text files with different essays (22% similarity)

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  Empty text file error

Inspiration

As I was going through research papers for my project work in college. I came across a lot of research papers that were plagiarized and had similar contents in them. I didn't want to use plagiarized documents so I took the help of an online plagiarism checker. So, I thought of creating my own text plagiarism checker

What it does

The project reads two text files (.txt) and reads individual words in the text file. Then the similarity percentage is computed.

How we built it

I have coded the entire program using Java.

Challenges we ran into

The project checks for single words rather than sentence strings. So, there are some minor problems when expecting a precise result.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I'm new to programming and started learning java recently. I am happy that I could use some of my knowledge that I have learned for the past 6 months.

What we learned

I have learned how to use HashSet to retain all the distinct words and store them in the set. I also learned to input and read the text file from my local directory.

What's next for Plagiarism Checker

First, I want to check for the sentences rather than words. Second, i want to create an app to deploy my code so that user's can easily access it.

Built With

• java