Plagiarism refers to “the act of copying materials without
actually acknowledging the original source”. Plagiarism has seen
a widespread activity in the recent times. The increase in the
number of materials available now in the electronic form and the
easy access to the internet has increased plagiarism. Manual
detection of plagiarism is not very easy and is time consuming
due to the vast amount of contents available. Techniques are
available now which help us to detect plagiarism. As the amount
of programming code being created is increasing, techniques are
available now to detect plagiarism in source code also. Current
research is in the field of development of algorithms that can
compare and detect plagiarism. In this paper a few techniques
used in the Plagiarism Detection is shown along with some tools
which are being used Using Plagiarism Detection Techniques we
can compare a given material with any target material which is
either a particular document or in a repository. Different
techniques used in the