AI Text Summarizer
Four formats, one rule: nothing appears in the summary that was not in the source.
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Summaries usually fail in one of two ways. Either they keep the shape of the original, so you get the introduction, the middle and the conclusion in miniature, or they flatten everything into “the text discusses several topics”. A useful summary does neither. It leads with the conclusion and drops the scaffolding the original needed in order to build up to it.
Use it on a report before a meeting, a long article you need to cite, a transcript you have to act on, or your own draft when you want to see what it actually argues. Paste the text, choose a format, and say what to focus on. Three bullets is the most useful default. An executive summary is for when somebody else will read it instead of the source.
What the text summarizer gives you
01The conclusion comes first, background last
The summary opens with what the source concludes or what changed, not with how it sets up the problem. That inversion is what makes a summary genuinely faster to read than the original document. Most summaries invert it the other way and bury the point.
02Numbers get carried across completely intact
Figures, dates and names are copied exactly, never rounded or paraphrased. A summary that gets a figure wrong is worse than no summary, because the reader has no way to notice. They have no other source to check it against.
03Four formats, not four different lengths
Three bullets is not a short paragraph. Bullets are for scanning in a meeting, a sentence is for a citation, a paragraph is for a brief, and the executive format adds the implication at the end.
04A focus control that actually decides
Choose the main argument, key facts, action items or the whole thing. Focus determines what survives compression. Everything else in the process is mechanical, which is why this one choice decides the shape of the finished summary.
When to use it
Editing without rewriting
You already have the text; it is just doing three jobs at once. Rewrite, tighten or retone it while keeping your facts and your meaning intact.
Hitting a length you did not choose
A bio gets 150 characters. A meta description gets 155. An abstract gets 250 words. Cut or expand to the number the form actually allows, rather than trimming blindly.
Making dense text usable
Meeting notes, reports and long threads usually need to become bullets, a summary or a set of action items. Convert the shape instead of rereading it five times.
How it works
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Paste the text, not a link
The tool reads what you give it. A link or a title gives it nothing to compress, and the output will be generic enough to apply to anything with that headline.
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Think about who reads the summary
A colleague who will never open the source needs conclusions and numbers. You, a week later, need the argument. Format follows reader, not preference. Pick it for the person, not for the source.
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Check the numbers against the source
One pass, comparing figures and dates. It takes thirty seconds and it is the only error in a summary that actually matters to the person acting on it.
Frequently asked questions
How long can the text be?
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About 2,000 characters per run, roughly a page. Longer documents should be summarized section by section and then summarized again. A two-stage pass is what stops the middle of a long report from quietly disappearing. It also gives you a second chance to check the figures.
Will it summarize a PDF?
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Paste the text out of the PDF first. Scanned pages need OCR before anything can read them, and tables usually lose their structure on the way. Check any summary of a table-heavy document against the original page. A screenshot of a table is not text.
Does it keep the original wording?
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No, it rewrites. If you need the source’s exact phrasing for a citation, ask for a sentence-level summary and copy the key line out yourself. Paraphrased quotes are a citation error waiting to happen. A paraphrase is not a quote, however close it looks.
What is the difference between a paragraph and an executive summary?
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A paragraph explains what the source says. An executive summary adds the implication: what it means for the reader and what decision follows. Use the second when someone will act on your summary instead of reading the source themselves. That implication is the part people actually pay for.
Can it summarize a meeting transcript?
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Yes, and action items is the right focus. Transcripts hide decisions inside small talk, so asking for action items separates what was agreed from what was merely discussed, which is the distinction that matters the next morning. It is also the distinction nobody remembers by then.
Will it lose important numbers?
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It is instructed to keep every figure exact and to cut examples before conclusions. Very number-dense sources still lose some. If the figures are the point, set key facts as the focus and check the output against the source. Ask for key facts rather than the whole thing.
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