Having to deal with a long and complex text that must be understood, analyzed and valued. We all face at some time in life, either as students or in the professional field, with the arduous task of summarize texts. Wouldn't a little help to accomplish this task be helpful?
In the academic life it is almost inevitable to have to do summaries and outlines of notes and study topics. It does not matter what the course or career is. In fact, summarizing texts is one of the most used and effective study techniques to retain and assimilate concepts and content. Or so say the experts in the teaching world.
But also in the world of workDepending on what type of work is carried out, it will be inevitable to have to summarize a report, a speech, the conditions of a contract, the content of a meeting ... An important job that requires attention and effort.
Luckily, technology comes to the rescue to make our lives easier. exist good tools available on the internet with which the work of synthesizing texts and documents becomes a quick and easy task. And also, free.
By reading this, the logical question arises as to whether these programs really work. Summarize texts in a short time and without effort, okay. But, Is the result acceptable? The answer to this question is a resounding yes. In any case, it is always advisable to review it with the expert human gaze (ours) before handing it over to our teachers or our bosses.
The websites and programs to summarize texts are also very easy to use. Basically in all of them you have to upload or paste the text on which we want to make the summary and click on the "summarize" button. As simple as that. But to convince yourself, we bring you a selection of the 5 best programs to summarize free texts that currently exist:
Free Summerizer
Free Summarizer, an effective online tool to summarize texts
A good option for working with summaries is Free Summerizer. His name is quite a declaration of intent. This website allows us to copy and paste the content into the main box and then choose the number of sentences in which you want to reduce the text. We say "reduce" well, because that is what this website actually does. A reduction of the text, not a summary in the strict sense of the term.
However, it should be noted that the web does more than that. Its algorithm is designed to locate relevant phrases in the text, although for this the user must indicate some keywords.
Even so, it is a simple and very fast website. The result is obtained in a few seconds. And don't be scared by the fact that it is in English, as it is prepared to manage texts in other languages such as German, French or Spanish.
Summarizing texts with Free Summarizer is completely free, although the paid versions offer many other advantages, such as saving the summary in your files online or sending it to its recipient through your email. It also offers, among other things, a proofreading service (for a fee). If you are going to have to use the tool on a regular basis, you may be interested in subscribing to its services.
Link: Free Summerizer
linguakit
In addition to the summary of texts, Linguakit offers many other services and functionalities
When talking about linguakit, we clearly level up. It is much more than a simple website to summarize texts. Actually, it is a project created by the University of Santiago de Compostela and aimed specifically at professionals: teachers, researchers, students, publicists, companies ...
Linguakit is presented as a complete linguistic tool. Among other things, it gives us the opportunity to improve the quality of our writing and deepen the knowledge of the language. Very interesting for those of us who are dedicated to putting letters together. To assess the immense possibilities offered by this website, we will say that it contains, among other things, a translator, a conjugator, a grammar and spelling checker and even a syntactic analysis tool.
But there is still more: we also find in Linguakit a practical keyword extractor and a function that helps us analyze the feelings expressed in a text. Without a doubt, something out of the ordinary.
In order not to just stay in theory, we have tested the Linguakit text summarization tool and we must say that it works very well. You can choose the percentage of abstract text with the result being more than acceptable. A good job.
This wonderful tool is totally free, although it offers limited access of only five uses per day. Of course, we always have the option of contracting the paid service, with which the number of consultations can be increased up to 100 times per month.
Even to use Linguakit for free it is necessary to register with first name, last name and an email address. It is available in four languages (Spanish, English, Galician and Portuguese). In addition, it has a mobile application for IOS and Android.
Link: linguakit
Resomer
One of the best tools to summarize texts: Resoomer
There are many who recommend Resomer as a preferred tool for text summary work. It should be said that, as we are warned from the website itself, it only works with argumentative texts. What does this mean? Well, it will be very useful if what we want is to summarize texts such as an academic work or a technical study. However, it will be of little use to us to summarize a novel or a play, for example.
Strictly speaking, Resoomer is a Chrome browser extension. It allows you to summarize texts of up to 500 words using the same mechanics that we use for other tools such as Google Translate. In other words, copy and paste the text in the box and press the button marked with the word "resoomer".
A very remarkable aspect of Resoomer is that has its own API ("Application Programming Interface") for companies. This implies that it can be used as a working tool for word processing oriented to the business world and the business world. However, this is an option that requires registration.
The free version of Resoomer allows you to summarize texts of up to 40.000 characters; the premium version (paid) raises this figure to 200.000 and eliminates advertising.
For the rest, we emphasize that this website works well in several languages (Spanish, German, French, English and Italian) and is very simple and easy to use.
Link: Resomer
SMMRY
Summarize texts with SMMRY
The operation of SMMRY It is very similar to that of Linguakit, at least as far as summarizing texts is concerned. It allows selecting the reduction of the text to a percentage (minimum 10%) and introduces the option of being able to insert the URL of the web that we want to summarize instead of the text with the classic copy-paste.
Like Resoomer, this tool also offers API. Actually, it offers two: a free one (with 100 daily summaries) and a paid one, called "full", with no limits of any kind.
It must be said that the summary algorithm of SMMRY has a better performance in short and concise texts than in longer writings, where you "get lost" a bit. This is undoubtedly an aspect to improve. For the rest, it is available in Spanish and English and (as its users testify) it has a good user support service.
Link: SMMRY
Paraphrasist
Parafrasist: text summary and much more
Close our list a magnificent tool to summarize texts and for much more: Paraphrasist. Explained somewhat briefly, the paraphrase It consists of explaining the content of a text in your own words, thus facilitating its understanding. That is, in essence, what this website offers its users.
Its mode of use is extremely simple: the text is entered in the box, the option to summarize is chosen (although there is also the possibility of "paraphrasing") and in just a few seconds the summary is displayed to the left of the text, which we can compare at any time with the original . If the text has not been sufficiently synthesized, we can abbreviate it even more by pressing the "summarize more" button. In addition, the most important phrases and keywords also appear in the results, all in a box that is located just below the summary text.
La free version allows you to work with texts of up to 10.000 characters, although you can only run fifteen summaries a day you have to support a lot of pop-ups with advertising.
There is a paid version whose details we explain below, in case it was interesting. It offers two different modalities:
- Un single day plan at the price of 1,50 euros. This allows you to work with texts of 250.000 characters, without limit of summaries and with technical support in real time.
- Un monthly plan at the price of 4 euros.
Both one and the other are free of advertising. Of course, there is always the possibility of keeping the free version, which already offers many advantages by itself.
Link: Paraphrasist
Wismapping
Wismapping is a free tool, in which, in addition to summarizing texts, you will be able to make contextual maps, which help to relate ideas or texts around a keyword. With this tool you will be able to create, edit and share information in a clear and easy to understand way.
It also has a very interesting function, and that is that once the mental map is obtained, several people can work on it simultaneously, so that for joint work it becomes a very useful tool.
Once the map is made, you can export it in jpg, png or svg, or directly embed it in your web page using code.