Text Summarizer
Paste anything long and get the sentences that actually carry it. They are your sentences, picked rather than rewritten, so nothing can come back saying something you did not.
Your summary appears here as you type.
Runs entirely in this browser. Nothing you type is uploaded, stored or seen by us.
Three steps, no account.
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Paste the text
An article, a transcript, a report, a thread. Longer works better — there has to be something to leave out.
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Choose how short
One to eight sentences, as bullets or as a paragraph. Move the slider and it updates as you watch.
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Or see it in place
Switch on "show it in place" and the chosen sentences are marked inside your own text. Which sentences were NOT picked usually tells you more about the draft than the summary does.
There are two ways to summarise. One writes new sentences about your text, which reads smoothly and can quietly introduce a claim you never made. The other selects the sentences already carrying the meaning. This does the second, which is why it is free, instant and needs nothing sent anywhere — the work happens in your browser.
The selection is ordinary and well understood: how often a sentence uses the terms the piece keeps returning to, divided by its length so a rambling sentence cannot win simply by containing more words, with a nudge for the openers because that is where most prose puts its topic.
Text Summarizer, answered.
No, and that is deliberate. It selects sentences you already wrote rather than generating new ones, so there is nothing to invent — and nothing is uploaded, because the whole thing runs in your browser.
Because it uses the words the piece keeps coming back to, relative to its own length. If the pick looks wrong, that is often worth knowing: it usually means the sentence carrying your point is not using your own vocabulary.
You can paste a great deal, but a summary of something very long tends to be three sentences about three unrelated parts. Chapter by chapter gives a far more useful result.
Nothing leaves your browser — there is no upload and no request. That said, a public web tool is a judgement call for genuinely sensitive documents whoever built it.
Yes, and it is one of the better uses. Speech repeats itself, which is exactly the condition an extractive summary handles well.
This is one job. The workspace does the rest.
The free tools stay free and stay ungated. Recast is where they stop being separate tabs and start handing work to each other — a link becomes a card, an article and a week of posts without you moving anything between them.