Frequently Asked Questions

ProofreaderPro.ai is an AI-powered proofreading platform created by academics to cater specifically to the needs of other academic writers. It helps researchers, postgraduate students, and professors refine their manuscripts by addressing key language issues. Additional features include tracked changes for easy review and the ability to export them into Microsoft Word. It also provides multilingual text processing support, making it a reliable tool for international, non-English reseach. ProofreaderPro.ai is a comprehensive, user-friendly platform for streamlining manuscript proofreading, editing, and research solutions before publication or submission.

ProofreaderPro.ai is designed for researchers, academics, professors and postgraduate students who need to ensure that their manuscripts meet high academic standards. It is especially useful for those preparing research proposals, journal papers, theses, dissertations, or any other academic content.

Unlike general-purpose AI-enhanced proofreading tools, ProofreaderPro.ai is specifically optimized for academic writing. It uses advanced language models trained on datasets of scholarly texts to ensure that edits made fit the formal, academic tone and structure expected in research papers.

ProofreaderPro.ai is designed to handle a wide range of academic and professional documents. These include research papers, journal articles, theses, dissertations, conference papers, grant proposals, coursework assignments, book chapters, essays, and even personal statements. Whether you are refining academic work for submission, preparing a manuscript for publication, or polishing professional documents, ProofreaderPro.ai ensures they are well-written, error-free, and academically sound.

ProofreaderPro.ai supports a wide range of academic disciplines, including: STEM fields: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science. Social Sciences: Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, and Economics. Humanities: History, Philosophy, Literature, Linguistics, and Art. Health and Medicine: Nursing, Public Health, Pharmacology, and Clinical Research. Business and Management: Marketing, Finance, Accounting, and Organizational Studies. The tool is trained to handle highly technical and field-specific language across all disciplines.

ProofreaderPro.ai uses Generative AI, including Large Language Models (LLMs) and research-focused Small Language Models (SLMs), trained on extensive datasets of academic texts. These models recognize grammatical errors, suggest stylistic improvements, refine sentence structure to enhance clarity and coherence, and perform edits to improve overall readability.

Yes, ProofreaderPro.ai recognizes and preserves in-text citation formats without altering or removing them. It can also suggest formatting corrections to ensure your citations comply with standards such as APA, MLA, IEEE, Turabian and Chicago.

ProofreaderPro.ai focuses on proofreading and editing but does not include a built-in plagiarism checker. We are working on an integrated plagiarism checker that generates similarity index reports for uploaded documents.

Yes, ProofreaderPro.ai ensures a formal, academic tone while incorporating discipline-specific key terminology and academic jargon when applicable.

Yes, all edits made are tracked in ProofreaderPro.ai. Added text is displayed in green, while deleted text is shown in red with a strikethrough. You have the option to click on individual changes to accept or reject them, or you can highlight multiple changes and accept or reject them as a group. Additionally, you can use the Accept All or Reject All buttons in the top menu to apply changes across the entire document. All tracked changes made can be exported into Microsoft Word for further review and analysis.

ProofreaderPro.ai corrects grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors, adjusts tone for academic formality, restructures sentences for clarity and coherence, enriches the text with scientific and technical terms relevant to the research area, and ensures adherence to academic conventions. Edits are performed while keeping your originality and authorship intact.

Yes, ProofreaderPro.ai offers adjustable proofreading levels—Light, Standard, and Comprehensive. The Proofreading and Editing Density slider provides flexibility, allowing you to control the intensity or 'density' of editing.

Light proofreading focuses on basic grammar, spelling, and punctuation corrections. Standard proofreading comprises grammar corrections and discipline-specific lexical refinement. Comprehensive editing offer in-depth revisions for grammar, clarity/conciseness, coherence/flow, sentence syntax and structure, academic wording and lexical refinement, and overall readability.

For optimal, high quality results, add only 500-600 words at a time. For larger text, simply highlight and proofread 500-600 words at a time.

In addition to proofreading and editing, ProofreaderPro.ai offers a variety of other functions to support academic writing. These include paraphrasing, which involves rewriting sentences or paragraphs to enhance clarity or change the structure without altering the original meaning; summarization, which condenses lengthy text into a concise summary while preserving key information; text expansion, which develops brief ideas into more detailed content; citations adjustment, ensuring proper citation formatting and consistency across different academic styles such as APA, MLA, and Chicago; tense conversion, which ensures consistency in the manuscript by converting text to different tenses; US/UK English format conversion, which switches between US and UK English spelling and conventions; and language translation, which supports non-native English writers by translating content into over 50 languages. These features, combined with the editing tools, make ProofreaderPro.ai a comprehensive platform for refining, enhancing, and formatting academic work.

Edit metrics refer to the data provided about the changes made to your document, including the Original Word Count, which is the number of words in the original text; Edited Word Count, which is the number of words after editing; Edit Percentage, which represents the proportion of the text changed during editing; and Edit Density, which refers to the number of modifications (edits) made per 100 words.

To get started, simply go to the User Guide located in the main menu. There, you'll find step-by-step tutorials that will walk you through the process of using ProofreaderPro.ai to edit your academic writing.

We are working on integrations with popular tools and reference managers. For now, you can upload your text in supported formats, edit it, and export the proofread version (along with the tracked changes) for further use in Microsoft Word.

If no changes are suggested, it means your text is well-written and free of errors.

Yes, ProofreaderPro.ai is fully supportive of international researchers. The platform's entire user interface can be switched to over 50 languages, making it easier for researchers who are non-native English speakers to navigate and use the app seamlessly. The app also supports multilingual capabilities for all text processing tasks, including proofreading, editing, paraphrasing, etc.

Yes, ProofreaderPro.ai supports all text processing tasks in multiple languages, ensuring high-quality results for non-English academic texts.

Yes, you can save your documents on ProofreaderPro.ai.

ProofreaderPro.ai offers both Free and Pro plans. The Free version includes basic features and limited monthly word usage (5,000 words which reset monthly), while the Pro version unlocks more advanced features and higher monthly word usage limits (200,000 words which reset monthly).

To upgrade to the Pro plan, simply visit the Pricing page on the website, select your preferred plan, and follow the instructions to complete your subscription. You can cancel at any time and still have access to the Pro plan until the end of your billing cycle. Once your Pro plan expires, your account will automatically revert to the Free version at the start of the following month.

Yes, we offer refunds under certain conditions. Please refer to our refund policy for more details.

Yes, we offer discounted rates for universities, institutions, professors, educators, and postgraduate students under certain conditions. Contact our support team for more details.

Your privacy is a top priority. All documents uploaded to ProofreaderPro.ai are processed securely. We do not store or share your data without your consent.

No, we do not share or sell your documents to third parties. Your work remains confidential and is only used for editing purposes.

No, all data is deleted after processing to ensure confidentiality.

All uploads are encrypted during transmission and processing. We follow strict security protocols to protect your information and research at all times.

Once editing is complete, your document is deleted unless you explicitly save it.