Look, we get it. We're all busy with so many things to do and so many web pages to read. Often, you read to gather information rather than for the pleasure of reading (though don't forget to do that, too), and you just want all the details summarized for you in a few sentences. That's why online summarization tools exist.
With these nifty online tools, you can copy and paste text or URLs into a box, set settings based on how many summaries you want, and then click a big button to get details for a specific item in no time. A few sentences. Here are our favorite tools for this purpose.
1. SkimCast
Unlike the other options on this list, when you create SkimCast Their summaries preserve the original text as it is, simply highlighting the essential information from the text that you need to read to get the gist. This way, you can always read between the highlights if you want to gather additional bits of information here and there.
SkimCast doesn't allow you to copy and paste blocks of text like other sites; instead, you can paste the URL of the page you want to summarize. If you want to summarize your documents, you'll need to upload a PDF file.
You can choose a percentage of the original text to reduce the summary to, and specify which pages to summarize if the PDF is multi-page.
2. IntelliPPT
One of the newest summary tools available, it allows you to: IntelliPPT Upload PDF files and Word documents, as well as copy and paste text into a box, then have it summarized for you in seconds.
It's pretty simple as summaries go, with one standout feature being the option to choose how long you want the summary to be, as a percentage of the original text. It's pretty smart with summaries, and it'll do the job if you're not looking for fancy extra features.
The free version lets you enter text up to 3000 characters, and has a 1MB file size limit, while for $3 per month, you can have up to 10000 summarized characters plus 5MB file sizes.
3. Smmry
With its chaotic tones, it has smmry It's branded after a late 90s punk site, but don't be fooled—it's actually a great text summarization tool. Smmry lets you paste URLs or enter text directly, but it has the added benefit of letting you upload files from your hard drive as well.
It comes with all sorts of little extra settings, including: Heat map Which marks sentences according to their importance, plus options to skip questions, exclamation marks, and quotes.
It is clear what you see "whatever" It won't always be what you see as important, so keep that in mind.
4. Tools4noobs
If you want something more hands-on with your article summaries, you can try Tools4noobsYou can enter text directly or by pasting in a URL, but it also has a few more sophisticated options that let you really fine-tune the type of summary you're looking for.
You can choose "threshold" From 1 to 100, for example, which breaks down the summary based on words "related" that it finds (or you can adjust the number of lines it displays).
You can also highlight sentences by their relevance and keywords, as well as expand on the most common words in the article.
5. TextSummarization
keep TextSummarization It's nice and simple for anyone to use. Unlike some other summarization tools, it actually lets you copy and paste the URL of an online article into it, and it will scan the page and convert the article into any sentences you choose.
The URL tool doesn't always get the text successfully, but the fact that it exists and works well for the most part gives this tool a leg up over the others.
6. Free Summarizer
It was a program Free Summerizer It's been around for years, and the fact that it hasn't really evolved in that time suggests it does the basics very well. You manually paste text into this text editor, then simply set the number of sentences you want to condense and press the button. In our tests, it provides nice, informative summaries, which makes up for its lack of features.
As a bonus, the website also has a proofreading tool!
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