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Online report guide

What the online report can do, how to use it, and what happens when it expires.

Open the report

  1. Under Available Reports, click Open online report. The viewer opens in a new tab.
  2. The countdown at the top is the online access remaining. Until it reaches zero you can open the report as often as you like.
Open the report

Matches and sources

  1. Highlighted text matches a source. The number in the margin is the source number.
  2. Click a source on the right: the document scrolls to the match, and you can step through all matches of that source.
  3. Exclude source removes this source from the similarity result. Excluded sources can be restored at any time.
Matches and sources

Filters

Bibliography or quotations counted as matches? Adjust what is included.

  1. Click Filters and tick what to exclude: bibliography, quoted text, cited text, or small matches below a word count.
  2. Click Apply Filters. The score and the highlights are recalculated immediately.
Filters

Download the PDF

  1. Click Download in the header.
  2. Choose Similarity Report or AI Writing Report. The PDF is generated with the filters currently applied.
Download the PDF

AI writing detection

  1. Switch to the AI Writing tab.
  2. Highlighted passages are the text identified as AI-generated.
  3. The breakdown bar shows where they are in the document; click a segment to jump to it.
AI writing detection

After online access expires

Backups are generated automatically with the last settings you saved.

  1. Return to the results page with your code and download the similarity and AI writing report PDFs.
  2. Saved settings shows the filters the similarity backup was generated with.
  • The AI report retains its final result. Similarity exclusions apply only to the similarity report.
  • Deleting the submission permanently invalidates the code and removes the document and all reports.
After online access expires