About summarizing text
This tool creates a shorter summary of a long piece of text by selecting its most important sentences. It is an extractive summarizer — it keeps real sentences from your text rather than rewriting them — and you control how long the summary is. It runs entirely in your browser, so your text is private.
How Text Summarizer works
How to use it
- Paste your article or long text.
- Set the summary length with the slider.
- Click Summarize and copy the result.
How it works
The tool counts how often each meaningful word appears (ignoring common stop words), then scores every sentence by the importance of the words it contains. The top-scoring sentences are kept in their original order to form the summary.
Extractive vs abstractive
This is extractive summarization: it picks existing sentences, so it is fast, private and never invents facts. It does not paraphrase like an AI writer; it highlights the key points already in your text.
Common uses
- Summarize a long article
- Get the key points of a report
- Make a quick TL;DR
- Shorten study notes
- Skim research faster
- Condense meeting notes
- Pull highlights from text
- Summarize content privately
Frequently asked questions
How do I summarize text?
Paste the text, choose a length and click Summarize.
Does it rewrite the text?
No — it selects the most important existing sentences (extractive).
Is my text uploaded?
No — summarizing happens entirely in your browser.
Can I control the length?
Yes — the slider sets what share of sentences to keep.
Does it work for any language?
It works best for English but handles others reasonably.
Will it invent facts?
No — it only reuses sentences from your text.
Is there a length limit?
No hard limit, though very long texts take a moment.
Is it free?
Yes — completely free with no sign-up.