Turnitin submission limitations and file types
This information guide provides a list of file types which Turnitin will accept
Requirements
File must be less than 100 MB
The maximum paper length is 400 pages
The minimum paper length size is 20 words
- Single file upload
Allowed file types for similarity checking
- Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx)
- Microsoft Excel (.xls and .xlsx)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx, .ppt, .ppsx, and .pps)
- Adobe PDF
- Plain text (.txt)
- Rich text format (.rtf)
- OpenOffice Text (.odt)
- WordPerfect (.wpd)
- PostScript (.ps)
- HTML
- Hangul Word Processor file (.hwp)
- Google Docs via Google Drive
Turnitin will not accept PDF files which do not contain highlightable text (e.g. a scanned file)
Further information can be found at the Turnitin Support website