Text Summarizer
Summarize any article, essay, or document into key bullet points, a short paragraph, or a TL;DR in seconds.
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How to use this calculator
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Paste your article, essay, report, or any text into the text area.
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Choose your preferred summary format: bullet points, paragraph, TL;DR, or executive summary.
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Select how detailed the summary should be.
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Copy the summary and use it for notes, emails, or social posts.
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The keyword section shows the most frequent important words in the text.
Frequently asked questions
How does the text summarizer work?
This tool uses extractive summarization — it scores every sentence in your text based on word frequency, sentence position, and relevance. Sentences that contain the most frequently used important words (excluding common stop words) score highest. The top-scoring sentences are selected and presented in their original order to form a coherent summary.
What is the difference between extractive and abstractive summarization?
Extractive summarization picks the most important sentences directly from the original text. Abstractive summarization (used by AI tools like ChatGPT) generates entirely new sentences that capture the meaning. Extractive is more accurate and never invents information; abstractive can be more natural-sounding but occasionally paraphrases incorrectly.
What types of text work best?
This tool works best with: news articles, blog posts, academic papers, business reports, and any well-structured prose with clear topic sentences. It works less well with: poetry, dialogue-heavy text, bullet-point lists, or highly technical/mathematical content. For best results, paste articles with clear paragraph structure.
Is there a word limit?
The tool handles texts up to approximately 5,000 words reliably. For longer documents, summarize in sections or paste the most important chapters/sections. Very long texts may have diminishing quality in sentence selection as more sentences compete for the top spots.
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When to use a text summarizer
Text summarizers are useful for: quickly understanding long reports or research papers without reading in full, creating TL;DR sections for your own articles, extracting key points from competitor content for research, summarising meeting notes or transcripts, generating social media posts from long-form content, and creating email newsletters from longer pieces.
Extractive vs AI summarization
AI-powered abstractive summarizers (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) generate human-like summaries but can "hallucinate" — paraphrase incorrectly or add information not in the original. Extractive summarizers like this tool only use sentences that exist in the source text — no hallucination possible. Use extractive for factual content where accuracy is critical; use AI tools for creative paraphrasing.
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