PLAGIARISHIELD: AN AI-POWERED APPLICATION FOR DETECTING PLAGIARISM

This study presents plagiarishield, a mobile application developed to assist students and researchers in checkingtheir academic outputs for possible plagiarism. It provides multiple input options such as manual text entry, fileuploads (txt, .docx, .pdf), and image-to-text conversion through optical character recognition (ocr). The systemsimulates plagiarism detection by generating similarity percentages, highlighting plagiarized words, and keepinga local history of reports for future reference. Built using the agile development approach, the application wascreated incrementally with user feedback from surveys and usability testing guiding continuous improvements.The result is a user-friendly and practical tool that raises awareness of plagiarism and promotes academicintegrity