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Find Plagiarized Documents (Beta)

How to use FireMatcher?

The main menu

FireMatcher main menu

The main menu under the FireMatcher icon offers you a broad set of tools to analyze documents. You can analyze local files, the currently shown webpage, selected website text and documents from other applications in the clipboard. Momentarity, the formats .txt, .html, .pdf, .doc and .ppt are supported.
Furthermore, FireMatcher is able to analyze up to 10 documents in one request. You can activate this expert function in the menu entry "Add more than one item". In this mode, added documents are only analyzed when you select the menu entry "Analyze added items". You can clear them by clicking on "Delete all added items". The help entry shows this page. In the settings menu you can specify how many MB FireMacher should maximally download when processing web documents.

The FireMatcher icon

The FireMatcher icon is a versatile tool.

The context menus

To analyze the currently shown page press right-click and select the respective menu entry. To analyze a linked document right-click on a link and select "FireMatcher: Analyze linked document".
Context menu add page Context menu add link

To analyze selected website text choose "FireMatcher: Analyze selected text" from the context menu.
Context menu add text

Increasing Java-Heap

If you often analyze large documents you should increase Java's heap size to avoid out-of-memory errors. You can do this by opening the Java Control Panel -> Java -> Settings. In the field Runtime-Parameter enter the following: -Xms128m -Xmx256m -Xverify:none
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