A graphical and convenient tool for document comparison and visualization

Although there are a number of tools available for analyzing collections of documents, little work has been done in visualizing differences and elucidating similarity trends among documents to detect plagiarism. Therefore, a convenient and powerful document comparison and visualization tool is introduced. The software tool is developed with GIMP toolkit (GTK) to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) for an effortless navigation to process multiple documents, and allow the user to visualize document similarities in an intuitive way via Kohonen Maps. Moreover, the document analyzer tool incorporates Customized Term Weighting Scheme (CSTW) to capture category and semantic information for document classification.