Uploading a file to a folder

This guide explains how to upload files to a folder in your account to generate Similarity Reports.

In this guide:

• File upload requirements
• Supported file types
• Uploading a file for repository comparison

File upload requirements

• Your total upload size must not exceed 200MB
• Each file must be 100MB or less and must contain at least 20 words of text
• The maximum paper length permitted is 800 pages
• ZIP files must not exceed 1GB or contain more than 1,000 files
• When uploading ZIP files, only supported file types will be processed. Files such as images and other unsupported formats will not generate a Similarity Report.

Supported file types

• Microsoft Word (DOC and DOCX)
• Excel (XLS and XLSX)
• PowerPoint (PPT and PPTX); e ach slide is counted as a page
• PostScript
• PDF
• HTML
• HWP
• Rich Text Format (RTF)
• OpenOffice (ODT)
• WordPerfect
• Plain text (TXT)

Uploading a file for repository comparison

Upload to My Files to generate a new Similarity Report. To learn more about comparing a submission against up to five other submissions, see our Doc-to-doc comparison guide.

1. Sign in to your account and select the Launch button. If you have already launched, navigate to My Files.
   
   
   
2. Select the Upload button. 

3. Drag and drop the file of your choice into the designated drag and drop space, or select the Browse button.

   

   You can select multiple files from your device (use the shift key on Windows or Mac).

4. If required, amend the file title and enter the author's first name and last name. Only the title field is mandatory.
   
   

   To change these details for multiple files, select the Add title and author information for each file link.

5. Depending on your account settings, you can choose to add your submitted files to the repositories your account is subscribed to by checking the Index to your account's repository checkbox.

   If you don't see this option at upload, that's because the account administrator has either selected to Index all submissions or Don't index any submissions. Speak to your account administrator for clarification on which setting they've chosen, or if you have administrator access to your account you can see what option is selected from the account settings page.

6. Choose the Upload and Submit button to start your upload.

7. Monitor the progress of your upload in the upload progress box at the bottom of the sidebar.
   
   

8. Once the upload is complete, select Open from the progress box or select the file from My Files to view the Similarity Report.

   Your Similarity Report may take a few minutes to process after your upload is complete.