Plagiarism Detection of Flowchart Images in the Texts

Today, much more than in the past are discussed of plagiarism in the research. Conditions of the Web and Possibility of complex and smart searches in a short time, is rated to this, and as a result has arrived significant damages to the research. Tools designed to deal with plagiarism act on the text and ignore images. On the other, an inseparable part of information transfer are images that transfer the large volume of information in an article or scientific research. Because of the images include a very wide range and especially found large amounts of flowchart images in the computerʹs texts, and as respects, flowcharts are carrying a lot of information, could be one of the options of plagiarism. The purpose of this paper is examine the plagiarism rate of a paper in terms of flowchart images plagiarism using artificial neural network. The average of flowchart images recognition accuracy in terms of structure, nodes and edges in the proposed method with 81.91 percent, indicating the success of this method.