Tehnari / PlagiPy

A lightweight plagiarism checker in Python to find similarities in two or more texts. A webinterface based on CherryPy makes PlagiPy extremely easy to use.

PlagiPy - A lightweight plagiarism checker in Python

Overview

Implementation of a super simple plagiarism checker in Python. A CherryPy-based webinterface makes it easy to see which parts of a text have likely been copied. The score estimates the number of copied words.

Installation

If Python 3.6 and pip are installed, use

pip install -r requirements.txt

to download Python-dependencies.

Usage

Via the webinterface with (the url is http://127.0.0.1:8080)

python start_interface.py

or via the command line

python compare_texts examples/text1.txt examples/text2.txt

Troubleshooting

If start_interface.py crashes with

libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
Abort trap: 6

remove the line webbrowser.open('http://127.0.0.1:8080') in start_interface.py and manually open the browser.

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