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Does the quote appear
in your source?

Paste a transcript or document and the quotation you want to check. Find the matching words and read them in context before using them in a draft.

Compare the quote with the supplied text.

Exact matching is tried first. Normalization keeps capitalization, words, numbers and other punctuation unchanged. Ellipses are treated literally.

Paste source text and a quote to begin.

The tool processes your text in this browser. It does not send the pasted text for analysis or save it. Up to 200,000 source characters and 20,000 quote characters.

A plausible quote can change the reason.

Original constructed example

Source: We cancelled the Monday recording because the guest was ill.

Draft: Production delays forced us to reschedule Monday’s recording.

The draft sentence is absent from the source and substitutes a different reason. Try both versions in the checker. A matching passage establishes that those characters occur in the supplied text; it does not establish that the text itself is accurate.

Read the result with the source still open.

Exact text match means the same character sequence occurs in the text you supplied. Typography-normalized match means a match appeared only after the stated normalization. No matching text found means neither permitted comparison located it.

Check the speaker, surrounding qualification and completeness of the excerpt. A phrase inside a denial, a question or someone else’s quoted words can match perfectly and still be misleading when attributed to the speaker.

A missing match can also come from an incomplete transcript, a correction or an excerpt assembled with omissions. The tool does not infer those changes. Check the original recording or document before treating the draft as wrong or the quotation as usable.

Use the quote review record to save the source version, timecode or passage location, attribution check and approved excerpt.

Questions about the work.

Is this a fact checker?

No. It locates matching text in the material you paste. It does not verify the source, identify the speaker, assess whether a claim is true or decide whether the excerpt preserves context.

Does it search the web or listen to audio?

No. Supply the relevant text yourself. If a transcript may be wrong, check the original recording. Nothing is retrieved from a URL or external database by this tool.

Can it match a quotation with an ellipsis?

Only if those exact characters appear in the source. Check each continuous excerpt separately, then review the omitted passage and attribution manually.

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