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
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 By the time you find one copy, ten more are already live — each a licence you'll never sell, and an outdated document circulating under your name.
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
Why NormScan
Every leaked standard is licence revenue you've already lost — and an uncontrolled, outdated copy circulating in your name.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.
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.
See how it worksAI match confirmed
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.
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.
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.
A full enforcement ladder — notice, delisting, host takedown and site-blocks — worked case by case. We catch reuploads and remove them on sight.
Always on, everywhere
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.
Under the hood, by design
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.
Models learn the text itself, not the filename — so renamed, re-hosted and altered copies still surface.
Indexed sites and the long tail of niche hosts, across 40+ languages, around the clock.
Analysts tune detection and confirm the edge cases. You get judgement, not just automation.
The exact methods stay under the hood. Every result still arrives with a matched passage and source you can verify.
The process
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.
Done for you, end to end
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.
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.
Ignored notices never sit. Host, registrar, search, network — we keep escalating until the copy is unreachable.
Each match is screenshotted, hashed and timestamped the instant we find it — sealed for any registrar or court.
Established channels into host and marketplace trust & safety teams. Not a form into the void.
A live record from detection to removal. Nothing slips, nothing left half-done.
Proof you can report upward
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.
What you can put in front of the board
Every removal rolls up into a figure you can defend — with the cases behind it one click away.
Each case keeps its detection time, matched passage, notice and removal date — the full chain, timestamped.
Hand an auditor a complete record. Nothing kept by hand, no spreadsheet to reconcile.
What a managed, evidence-led enforcement service does that an internal team chasing links cannot.
No procurement marathon — a short, confidential call and a first sweep of your catalogue.
Fully managed end to end. Detection, notices, escalation — your people do nothing.
Every removal documented for the auditable record your institute keeps.
Success stories
Unauthorized copies found and removed in the first 90 days — and the count kept falling quarter on quarter.
of detected leaks documented with a matched passage and source — evidence the board and the courts accept.
One auditable record across every language and jurisdiction.
After administrative site-blocking on the most stubborn mirror.
“They found copies in markets we never knew we leaked into. The coverage is what surprised us.”
What a leak costs
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.
Every free copy is a licence you never sell — and standards are sold one licence at a time.
Outdated, unverified versions circulate under your name, where you can't see or correct them.
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.
See what you're losingHow we engage
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 j.mota@normscan.com.
for institutes sizing up the problem
Quality institute
“We finally saw the scale of it in a week.”
for bodies protecting a live catalogue
Standards body
“Removals just happen now — with proof.”
Multi-tenant from day one — built for national institutes and international standards bodies running one consistent, auditable process.
FAQ
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.
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.
