About-SniffitOut

> 01. ABOUT SNIFFITOUT

Sniffitout is an open-source, privacy-first content integrity and similarity analysis engine created specifically for academic researchers, authors, and institutions.

Traditional plagiarism detection engines often flag standard bibliographic references, equations, and authorized quotations. Sniffitout utilizes document structural segmentation to parse body sections individually while automatically excluding bibliographies, citation markers, and mathematical formulas from similarity metrics.

Deep Overlap Analysis

Cross-references academic preprint archives (arXiv, PubMed Central, Crossref) and scholarly open repositories to detect uncredited textual borrow.

AI Synthetic Signal Scoring

Evaluates statistical perplexity, burstiness, and linguistic distribution markers to detect machine-generated and synthetic text fragments.

> 02. PRIVACY & ZERO DATA RETENTION

Zero Document Logging: Sniffitout processes your academic manuscripts in temporary memory buffers. Uploaded files and generated reports are never saved to external commercial servers, never published, and never used to train third-party AI models.

Your unpublished research, experimental data, and thesis drafts remain completely confidential under your own control.

> 03. SUPPORTED DOCUMENT FORMATS

Format	Extension	Parser Behavior
LaTeX	`.tex`	Isolates preamble, extracts sections, strips math equations, and excludes `\bibliography` and `\bibitem` entries.
Portable Document Format	`.pdf`	Extracts academic multi-column layouts, normalizes fonts, and demarcates section boundaries.
Microsoft Word	`.docx`	Parses heading hierarchy (Heading 1, 2) and extracts structured body paragraphs.
Plain Text & Markdown	`.txt, .md`	Tokenizes paragraph blocks, headers, and semantic divisions.

> 04. CROSS-PLATFORM CLI INSTALLATION

Sniffitout provides a powerful command-line interface for terminal users on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Quickstart via pip:

pip install sniffitout && sniffitout setup

Repository & Distribution:

Sniffitout is currently in private preview. Public releases and self-hosting kits will be announced here.

Common CLI Commands:

Command	Description
`sniff manuscript.pdf`	Run a full audit (overlap detection + AI signal analysis).
`sniff paper.tex --only-plag`	Scan for web and academic repository overlap only.
`sniff paper.tex --only-ai`	Scan for synthetic / AI generated content signals only.
`sniff resume <report.json>`	Resume an interrupted scan from the last completed section.
`sniff web`	Launch the local web browser portal on port 5000.

> 05. LICENSING & TERMS OF USE

Sniffitout is free to use for independent researchers, students, educators, and academic peer-review evaluation.

Commercial integrations (including LaTeX editors, PDF editing suites, and publisher automated ingestion pipelines) require a commercial license agreement. Contact the project maintainers for commercial API access and integration support.