NormScan
NormScanAnti-piracy for the world's standards

Your standards, found in a sea of a billion files.

NormScan locates unauthorized copies of your standards across the open web, wherever they hide, in any language, and takes them down. Quietly, continuously, with documented proof behind every case.

The problem

A standard is sold once. Then it's copied forever.

One purchased PDF gets renamed, re-hosted, mirrored and translated across thousands of sites you'd never think to check. Manual search catches a sliver. By the time you find one copy, ten more are already live, each a licence you'll never sell, and an outdated document circulating under your name.

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Until they don’t. Last month, 10,470 of those copies came down, most within 72 hours of going live.

Where leaks surface, monitored continuously

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Why NormScan

Built to find what others can't

Every leaked standard is licence revenue you've already lost, and an uncontrolled, outdated copy circulating in your name. NormScan finds the copies others miss, proves each one, and drives it off the web. Fully managed, fully documented, accountable for every case.

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Detection that doesn't miss

Keyword alerts and manual sweeps surface a fraction of what's live. Our detection engine works the entire open web: document libraries, file lockers and the long tail of hosts, built to surface the copies an in-house team never sees, including renamed, re-hosted and altered files that slip straight past search.

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AI match confirmed

Semantic matching
Lexical scoring
Confidence ≥ 0.9
Cross-encoding
Source-tracing
Fingerprinting

Verification that holds up

Every match is confirmed by machine-learning models trained on millions of standards: passage matched to source, scored and documented. Evidence you can act on, never a guess.

Wherever copies hide

Document libraries, marketplaces, file lockers and the long tail of niche hosts, every kind of source surfaced and ranked by where your standards actually turn up.

Driven off search, host by host

We don't stop at a notice. Copies are delisted from search and pulled at the host, until buyers stop finding free versions of what you sell.

Last 30 days: 95% of every copy we surface is confirmed, noticed and removed.

Removed for good

A full enforcement ladder (notice, delisting, host takedown and site-blocks) worked case by case. We catch reuploads and remove them on sight.

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Delistings
Notices

Always on, everywhere

We watch the entire planet

Your standards leak in every market and every language. NormScan monitors the open web worldwide, around the clock: no region out of scope, no host out of reach.

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48,412,900
documents screened for your standards, to date · and counting
Continuous
coverage of the open web
Every notice
carries a matched passage & source
Full audit
trail from detection to removal

Under the hood, by design

Cutting-edge intelligence behind every takedown

We keep the method ours and the results yours. Detection is purpose-built to read your standards themselves, not just match filenames, and a specialist reviews what it surfaces.

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    Trained on millions of standards passages

    Models learn the text itself, not the filename, so renamed, re-hosted and altered copies still surface.

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    The open web, watched continuously

    Indexed sites and the long tail of niche hosts, across 40+ languages, around the clock.

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    Reviewed by specialists, every day

    Analysts tune detection and confirm the edge cases. You get judgement, not just automation.

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    Confidential by design

    The exact methods stay under the hood. Every result still arrives with a matched passage and source you can verify.

The process

The lifecycle of a takedown

Every case follows the same disciplined path, and we drive it down the enforcement ladder, stage by stage, until the copy is gone and unfindable.

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Done for you, end to end

We run every takedown to the end, and never let one slide.

You don't chase hosts, file notices or save evidence. We open a case the moment a copy appears, pursue it relentlessly through every level of escalation, and keep an immovable record of all of it, so the work, and the proof, are simply handled.

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We never let go

The moment a copy reappears under a new name or host, our sonar catches it and we pull it again. For as long as it takes.

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Registrar
Search delisting
Network block

Climbs until it's gone

Ignored notices never sit. Host, registrar, search, network: we keep escalating until the copy is unreachable.

Evidence
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Nothing is ever lost

Each match is screenshotted, hashed and timestamped the instant we find it, sealed for any registrar or court.

Straight to the people who act

Established channels into host and marketplace trust & safety teams. Not a form into the void.

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Every case, tracked to closure

A live record from detection to removal. Nothing slips, nothing left half-done.

Case ledger
NG-0487 · marketplaceRemoved
NG-0486 · file lockerEscalated
NG-0485 · searchDelisted
NG-0484 · forumNotice sent

Proof you can report upward

A record your board can read

Enforcement is only worth what you can show for it. Every case rolls up into one auditable report (totals, trends and the chain behind each removal), so protecting your catalogue becomes a line item, not a leap of faith.

NormScanENFORCEMENT SUMMARYQ2 2026 · PDF
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copies removed
98%
with documented proof
72h
median time to removal
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markets covered
Removals by month8 months · +182%
Audit trail: 31,410 cases · detection → removal, timestamped

What you can put in front of the board

One number for the board

Every removal rolls up into a figure you can defend, with the cases behind it one click away.

Traceable end to end

Each case keeps its detection time, matched passage, notice and removal date: the full chain, timestamped.

Exportable on demand

Hand an auditor a complete record. Nothing kept by hand, no spreadsheet to reconcile.

NormScan vs. in-house monitoring

What a managed, evidence-led enforcement service does that an internal team chasing links cannot.

NormScan
The entire open web, every language, continuously
In-house monitoring
!A handful of known sites, checked periodically

One conversation to start

No procurement marathon, just a short, confidential call and a first sweep of your catalogue.

Zero overhead on your team

Fully managed end to end. Detection, notices, escalation: your people do nothing.

Proof you can report upward

Every removal documented for the auditable record your institute keeps.

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Success stories

Catalogues, measurably protected

National quality institute
1,240 live copies

Unauthorized copies found and removed in the first 90 days, and the count kept falling quarter on quarter.

Standards body
98%

of detected leaks documented with a matched passage and source, evidence the board and the courts accept.

Every case, provable
International body
6 markets

One auditable record across every language and jurisdiction.

Certification org
0 re-uploads

After administrative site-blocking on the most stubborn mirror.

Publishing house
“They found copies in markets we never knew we leaked into. The coverage is what surprised us.”
Director of Publishing

What a leak costs

Every uncontrolled copy is revenue and reputation, walking out the door.

A leaked standard isn't one missed sale. It's an outdated copy circulating in your name, a catalogue you no longer control, and a cost that compounds quietly until someone goes looking.

Revenue lost

Every free copy is a licence you never sell. Standards are sold one licence at a time.

Trust eroded

Outdated, unverified versions circulate under your name, where you can't see or correct them.

Effort wasted

An in-house team chasing links by hand is never finished, and never sure it caught them all.

Last month, we removed 10,470 of them: revenue and reputation, kept.

How we engage

A managed service, scoped to you

Pricing is scoped to the size of your catalogue: nothing to install, no dashboard to staff. We share figures on a first call, and you can reach us any time at hello@normscan.com.

PilotNo commitment

A first sweep

for institutes sizing up the problem

Complimentary
Head of Standards

Quality institute

We finally saw the scale of it in a week.

  • Confidential first sweep
  • A report of what's circulating
  • Matched passages & sources
  • No install, no dashboard
  • Scoped to your catalogue
  • Delivered in days
ManagedMost institutes

Ongoing enforcement

for bodies protecting a live catalogue

Custom/ scoped to your catalogue
Director of Publishing

Standards body

Removals just happen now, with proof.

  • Continuous managed detection
  • Formal notices filed for you
  • Full enforcement ladder
  • Search delisting & site-blocks
  • Auditable removal reporting
  • Multi-language, multi-host

Protecting more than one body?

Multi-tenant from day one, built for national institutes and international standards bodies running one consistent, auditable process.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Through proprietary detection that works across the open web at a scale no manual team can match. The method is ours and stays confidential, but every result we surface is backed by a documented match, so you can verify each one.

Document libraries, marketplaces, search results, mirror sites and direct file hosts, monitored continuously, in every language your standards are likely to be copied into.

Only the catalogue you want protected. We run a confidential first sweep and show you what's already circulating before any commitment.

Every case pairs the matched passage and the source URL with a timestamped record: the standard of evidence a registrar, a host, and a court expect.

No. NormScan is fully managed. You receive results and reports; the tooling that produces them stays on our side.

We escalate down the full enforcement ladder, from the host, to search delisting, to administrative site-blocking, until the copy is gone and unfindable.

The Founder's Desk

Standards bodies fund the work that keeps whole industries safe, and every leaked copy quietly erodes the revenue that makes it possible. We built NormScan so a national institute never has to choose between protecting its catalogue and getting on with its mission.

We do the finding, the proving, and the removing, discreetly, at a scale no in-house team can reach. You get the proof, and the quiet confidence that your standards stay yours.

João Mota
Founder, NormScan