| Education CopyCatch Gold has been in use in universities in the UK since the late 1990s. The Open University, which handles 750,000 assignments per year, has been using an automated version of CopyCatch Gold since January 2006, after using the manual version for a number of years. This version of the program handles course sizes of as many as 2,500 students. For a course of 825 students, reported in a paper given at the June 2006 JISC International Plagiarism Conference, the full process of file conversion and detection took six minutes of which CopyCatch took just one minute. This number of students requires 339,900 comparisons and the time taken included the output of fully marked up pairs of the serious cases in RTF format. |
| Commercial Parkes Consultants of Swansea had discovered misuse of copyright material. They had already done a manual examination but used Investigator to collect all the instances and mark up the similarities. This not only saved a lot of time in preparing evidence, but also provided a completely objective analysis of the data. This is what they said one hour after getting the program: Stunning! We've only played around with it so far but it looks as if it's going to exceed out highest (and, we thought, unrealistic) expectations. The results appear to be a perfect match with our manual comparison - and my word did that take a long time to complete. This is what they say after using the program for a couple of months - Once familiar with the software, setting up an investigation can be carried out in a matter of minutes. The processing time is extremely quick. It is accurate - I feel 100% confident in it. The way the results are presented (side by side with para numbers cross-referenced) makes is very easy to assess quickly if plagiarism has occurred and, if so, the extent of it. |
| Legal Law firms and one police organisation make use of the capability of CopyCatch Investigator to compare large quantities of long or short documents at sentence level. This can vary from identifying similiarity of phraseology to the extent of material taken from known potential sources. |