Merops

Merops

Powerful automatic text editing and markup for publishers and editors

Merops is an automatic text-editing and markup tool, that automates the most time-consuming parts of academic copyediting.

Save time. Improve quality. Lower costs.

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Fully customizable automatic editing

With over 2000 customizable editing rules, Merops can convert documents to conform to ready-made style guides like APA, AMA, and MLA, or you can easily make your own.

Style preferences can be standardized to specific preferences, or automatically detected and made consistent.

Merops understands your document’s structure, and applies editorial rules accordingly, so rules are applied differently in quotes, references, tables, abstracts, and more.

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Fully customizable automatic editing
One-step automation
One-step automation
Online cross-checking
Online cross-checking
Shipped style guides
Shipped style guides
Harvard/Vancouver conversion
Harvard/Vancouver conversion
Internal cross-checking
Internal cross-checking
Fully customizable
Fully customizable
API available
API available
Secure processing
Secure processing

Fix, format, and validate references

Automatically fix and format your references:

  • Convert between author–date (Harvard), numerical (Vancouver), author–page (MLA), and footnote references
  • Cross-check citations and bibliographies
  • Automatically correct or add missing details using online databases
  • Standardize formatting, punctuation, sorting, numbering, capitalization, and more
  • Add DOIs and PubMed IDs
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Fix, format, and validate references

Full document editing

Merops automates most copy-editing tasks, from front matter to footnotes. It can apply your house style and make corrections to:

Editing is contextual, for example editorial rules are applied differently in quotes, references, abstracts, tables, and footnotes.

Merops can sort document parts, apply paragraph styles, generate glossaries, and much more.

Full document editing
Contextual editing
Contextual editing
Bespoke markup on request
Bespoke markup on request
Subject detection
Subject detection
Keyword generation
Keyword generation
Glossary generation
Glossary generation
Word plug-in
Word plug-in
Quality reporting
Quality reporting
Make consistent
Make consistent

Powerful reviewing tools

If you want to review or copy-edit documents, Merops comes with a plug-in for Microsoft Word to help you review changes. The underlying document structure is displayed with colour-coded paragraph and character styles. This can be removed after editing, or used by your downstream processes.

Merops also includes tools to speed up reviewing and editing, like rejecting multiple similar changes at once.

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Powerful reviewing tools

Merops fits your workflow

Merops is extremely customizable and flexible. Over 2000 editorial preferences can be tailored to your specific requirements, and editing can be restricted to just references, or the whole document.

Merops can be used at various stages of your workflow, on Windows using Merops Desktop, using Merops Watchfolders, or integrated into your content management system using the Merops Cloud API.

Merops can preserve paragraph formatting, or standardize it, and bespoke output formats can be developed on request.

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Merops fits your workflow

Choose a plan that suits you

There’s no commitment – you can cancel any time.

Basic
£ 29.99
per month
30,000 words
per month
£1.00
per extra 1000 words
Plus
£ 57.99
per month
60,000 words
per month
£0.97
per extra 1000 words
Pro
£ 139.99
per month
150,000 words
per month
£0.93
per extra 1000 words
Business
£ 399
per month
500,000 words
per month
£0.80
per extra 1000 words
Enterprise
£ 999
per month
1.5 million words
per month
£0.67
per extra 1000 words
Bespoke
  • API access
  • Multiple user profiles
  • Dedicated servers
  • Tailored support
  • Bespoke enhancements
  • Flexible pricing

Want to see what Merops can do first?

Upload a document and get a free demo — no sign-up or payment required.

Frequently asked questions

Merops is a powerful AI tool designed for editors and publishers. It automatically corrects and standardizes documents — including references, headings, tables, and front matter — to match your required editorial style or house style guidelines.

For example, Merops can:

  • Convert between numerical and author–date references
  • Cross-check and format table, figure, and equation citations
  • Standardize spelling, capitalization, formatting, punctuation, and sorting
  • Automatically detect the document style and make it consistent

Merops applies thousands of editorial rules and is fully customizable. For more examples, see Automatic editing.

When you’re copy editing, you’re often forced to choose between speed and quality. Either you painstakingly check every detail and manually verify each reference online, or you cut corners and risk leaving errors behind.

Merops removes that trade-off. By automating the most tedious parts of copy editing, Merops helps you produce structured, accurate documents faster, and to a higher standard.

If you’re an editor… Boost your income by getting more done in less time, all while keeping your standards high.

If you’re an editorial service provider… Deliver high-quality edits, with shorter turnaround times. Help clients catch missing or incomplete content earlier in the process.

If you’re a publisher… Streamline your workflow, reduce time to publication, and stay competitive – all while upholding professional editorial standards.

Merops starts at just £29.99 per month. For full details or to select a plan, visit the Merops pricing page.

Merops processes documents at about 75 words per second. That’s under a minute for a typical 4000-word journal article!

There’s no commitment with a Merops subscription. You can cancel or resume whenever it suits you.

To cancel, go to your Settings page and click Cancel subscription, then follow the on-screen instructions.