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Text Summarizer
Shorten long text by picking its most important original sentencesLong documents have a triage problem: a forty-page report lands in your inbox and reading everything is impossible. This extractive summarizer scores every sentence by word importance and returns the highest-scoring ones, word for word, in their original order.
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Shorten long text by picking its most important original sentences
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Honest note: this is an extractive summarizer. It picks the most important sentences from your text word for word. It does not use AI and never rewrites or invents sentences.
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How to use the Text Summarizer
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Choose how many sentences the summary should keep.
Copy the summary
Click Summarize and copy the selected key sentences.
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About the Text Summarizer
This text summarizer uses a classic extractive method: it measures which words matter most in your document, scores each sentence, and returns the strongest sentences in their original order and wording. Nothing is rewritten and nothing is made up. Extractive summaries are ideal for triage: deciding whether a long article is worth a full read, or pulling the key lines out of a report. It runs fully in your browser and works on pasted text of any length.
Where it helps most
Decide what deserves a full read.
Triage long articles
Use it to decide whether a long article deserves a full read, starting from the honest core of the text.
Pull meeting key lines
Quickly pull the key lines from a meeting transcript or a dense report without reading every single page yourself first.
Draft study notes
Build the first draft of study notes from a textbook chapter, keeping the author's sentences while losing the filler.
Find the one finding
A research paper might hold the one finding you need buried inside, so extract the core without reading forty pages.
Summarizing honestly
Extractive, not AI: what that means for you.
Nothing rewritten
This summarizer does not use AI and never rewrites your text; every sentence is copied word for word from the original.
Control the length
You control the summary length with a simple slider: a good starting point is twenty to thirty percent of the original.
Know what summarizes well
Well-structured articles, essays and news stories summarize best, since their key points sit inside clear sentences; poetry and dialogue do not.
Text Summarizer: private by design
The word counting, sentence scoring and selection all happen locally in your browser. Your text is never uploaded, stored or shared.
Text Summarizer FAQs
It scores sentences instead of rewriting them. The tool counts how often each meaningful word appears in your text, ranks every sentence by the importance of its words, and returns the highest-scoring sentences in their original order. Every sentence in the summary is copied word for word from your text.