📝 Text Summarizer

Paste a long article and instantly get back the most important 30% of sentences — preserving the original wording while cutting filler. Powered by classic TF-based extractive summarization.

What is the text summarizer?

A summarizer condenses long text into shorter form. Two approaches: extractive (pick the highest-scoring original sentences) and abstractive (rewrite in new words using AI). Extractive is faster, more accurate, and doesn't fabricate facts — making it ideal for research, news consumption, and pre-reading triage.

How does this text summarizer work?

The tool tokenises sentences, scores each by the frequency of meaningful words it contains (after removing stop-words like 'the' and 'and'), and keeps the top 30% in original order. The result reads naturally because every sentence is real text from your input.

When should you use this tool?

Use it to triage long news articles before reading, to summarise meeting transcripts, to extract key points from research papers, to compress reports for executive summaries, and to brief yourself before reviewing a colleague's draft.

Tips & best practices

Works best on factual prose (articles, reports, transcripts). Less effective on creative writing where every sentence carries narrative weight. For abstractive (rewritten) summaries, you need a paid LLM API.

Frequently asked questions

How does it pick which sentences to keep?

TF (term frequency) — sentences with the most repeated topic words score highest.

Can it summarise PDFs or Word files?

Paste the text directly. For PDFs, use the PDF To Word tool first to extract the text, then paste here.

What's the typical compression ratio?

30% is the default. Shorter ratios produce tighter summaries; longer preserves more nuance.

Related tools

Explore more text analysis on the tool hub — or jump straight to the Word Counter.