Two ways to summarize
When your browser has a built-in summarizer, as recent versions of Chrome on a computer do, this page asks it to write the summary. The model runs on your own device, so your text is not sent to any server. In other browsers, or when you tick the option, the page picks the most important sentences from your text instead. It finds the sentences that share the most ideas with the rest of the text, gives a little extra weight to opening sentences, and skips repeats.
What it is good for
- Getting the gist of a long article or report before you read it properly.
- Turning meeting notes or a transcript into a few key points.
- Checking that your own writing makes its main points clearly.
Privacy
Many summarizers send your text to a server, where it may be stored or used for training. This page never sends your text anywhere, whichever method it uses. That makes it safe for drafts, contracts, notes and anything else you would rather keep to yourself.
Questions
Why does it say the browser needs to download a model?
Chrome downloads its built-in model the first time a site asks for it. It is large, so the first summary can take a few minutes on a slow connection. After that it works offline. You can always tick Only use sentences from my text to skip it.
How long can the text be?
Long texts are split into parts, summarized, and then combined. Very long documents work best with the sentence picker.