Pull the most representative sentences from a long section in seconds.
What this tool does
This tool builds a short executive summary by picking the most representative sentences from your text. It counts how often content words appear, scores each sentence by those counts, and returns the top five in their original order. Nothing is rewritten and nothing is invented: every line in the summary is a real sentence from your paste. That is why it is called extractive, and why it is honest about what it can and cannot do.
It works fully in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to a server, and you do not need an account. Paste your text, press the button, and read the result on the same page. That makes it useful for students, researchers, and anyone who has to get through a long paper quickly without losing the important parts.
How to use it
Paste a full section, such as a discussion or a long introduction, rather than a single paragraph. Press the streamline button and read the five sentences in order. Then open the original and read around each chosen sentence, because a sentence that scores highly may still need its neighbours to make full sense.
Worked example
Take a short passage on sleep and memory: sentences about sleep improving memory consolidation, students who slept recalling more words, consolidation strengthening neural connections, the effect being strongest for difficult material, and teachers planning revision around sleep. The tool scores the sleep and memory sentences highest and returns them as the summary. In five lines you get the finding, the evidence, the mechanism, and the implication, all in the author’s own words.
How to read the results
The output is a numbered list of up to five sentences in original order, plus the total sentence count so you can see how much was compressed. Sentences are not edited, so quotation marks, numbers, and caveats survive exactly as written. If the list reads oddly, that usually means the original section itself jumps between topics.
Do not treat the output as a final answer. It is a starting point for your own reading. Skim the highlighted parts first, then read the full passage around anything that matters for your work. A tool can point at the likely important sentences, but only you can judge whether they are actually important for your question.
Honest limits
Keyword frequency is a rough proxy for importance, not a measure of truth or quality. A repeated background term can outscore a single crucial result, and a sentence with a rare but decisive finding can be missed. This tool does not rewrite, paraphrase, or use artificial intelligence, so it cannot fix a confusing passage or spot a weak argument. Treat the summary as a map, not a replacement for reading.
This tool does not use artificial intelligence, and it does not understand your paper the way a human reader does. It follows fixed rules that you can inspect in the results. That is a strength when you want transparent, repeatable results, and a weakness when a passage needs real understanding, context, or judgement.
Tips for best results
Paste clean text. Remove page headers, footers, and reference lists before you paste, because they add noise to word counts and sentence scores. Work on one section at a time for long papers, and keep your original file open beside the tool so you can check anything surprising against the source. If you use the result in your own writing, always cite the original paper, never the tool output.
Frequently asked questions
Is it free? Yes. The tool is free to use online, with no sign-up and no download.
Is my text stored anywhere? No. Everything runs in your browser tab. Closing the tab removes your pasted text.
Can I trust the output completely? No tool of this kind should be trusted blindly. Use it to speed up reading and checking, then verify the important claims yourself in the original text.
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