Turn pages of reviewer comments into a short action list.
What this tool does
This tool condenses reviewer comments into their most representative sentences using extractive summarisation. It counts content words across the comments, scores each sentence by those counts, and returns the top five in original order. Nothing is rewritten and nothing is invented, so every line in the summary is a real sentence a reviewer wrote, which matters when you are deciding what to change in a revision.
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 the full reviewer comments, from all reviewers if you have them, into the box and press the summarise button. Read the five sentences as your action shortlist, then open the full comments and check each summary sentence in context, because a top sentence can be a summary of a longer, more specific request.
Worked example
Comments complaining twice about sample size, asking for a clarified analysis method and reported effect sizes, and praising clear writing, summarise to the sample-size sentences and the methods request at the top. The shortlist tells the author the revision priorities immediately: sample-size justification first, methods clarity second, and the praise last, as encouragement rather than action.
How to read the results
The output is a numbered list of up to five reviewer sentences in original order, plus the total sentence count so you can see how much was compressed. Sentences are unedited, so a reviewer’s exact wording, including polite hedging, survives, which helps you judge tone as well as content.
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, and it can mislead with reviewer comments: a single devastating criticism mentioned once can matter more than a repeated minor point, and a polite sentence can hide a major demand. This tool does not rewrite, prioritise by severity, or use artificial intelligence, so it cannot replace reading the full reviews. Use the summary to plan, then answer every comment, not just the top five.
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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