Top 5 Summarization Tools for Content Writers in 2021

Condensed writing is known to be the most desirable attribute of an effective writer but so many struggles with that. Furthermore, we are living in an era where there is an ample amount of data available and with the internet delivering thousands of data/content every day, it is impossible to keep up.

Whether you are a Researcher, Student, content writer, or you want to grab important information from a large text quickly, going through all the content manually and getting gist is quite an arduous task and time-consuming process. Given this case, there should be a way to take in details more effectively without increasing reading time.

The answer to all these difficulties is summarization tools.

There are many summarization tools available online in the market, which helps users to get the highlights of large text in a matter of seconds. The result of the generated summary depends on what technology goes into the development. The recent application of AI/ML in summarization tools improved the result considerably.

When you think of summarization tools, one needs to keep in mind that there are two types of summarization tools

1) Abstractive summarization

2) Extractive summarization

Abstractive Text Summarization is the process of creating a brief and succinct description of the original text that captures the key points. The result of abstractive summarization may include new phrases and sentences not found in the original.

Extractive Text summarization involves creating condensed versions of your large text by simply extracting important sections of the text and reproducing them with the very same terms as the original text, resulting in a subset of the original text’s sentences.

As we stated earlier, there are so many online summarization tools available. Some are effective, some are not. We have handpicked the 5 most effective summarization tools which help anyone who wants to summarize the long text in seconds.

MachineWrites

Machinewrites provide an AI-powered summarization tool. The use of AI and Natural Language Processing makes it amongst the most preferable summarization tools in the digital space. When it comes to the summarization method, the majority of the online summarization tools do not provide options to choose Abstractive summarization or Extractive summarization, but Machinewrites is one of the very few summarization tools where you get to choose the summarization method. It also provides an option to fetch the article using a URL.

Pros:

• It uses the latest technology (Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing)
• Provides the option to choose summarization method 1) Abstractive summarization 2) Extractive summarization
• Superfast in summarizing the long article.
• Generate quality output
• Free to use (As we are writing)
• Accessible via API
• Customer support seems very agile

Cons:

• Limited character input (600 Words)

Resoomer

Resoomer is another wonderful tool that generates accurate summaries of large text, which also allows crawling through so many important articles by just going through its summaries. Resoomer is quite popular amongst academic writers to get summaries with just one click.

Pros:

• Supports multiple languages
• Slow contact support.
• Provide browser extension
• Minimalist user interface
• It provides content optimization

Cons:

• The premium version is more valuable to try

SMMRY

Smmry is quite a simple platform that helps writers, researchers, students, content writers to summarize large text with just one click. It is free and allows many options. It creates a summary by associating words with their grammatical counterparts. Assign each word with points depending on their popularity and remove transition phrases, unnecessary clauses, excessive examples. SMMRY, which is designed to encapsulate an article in TXT or PDF formats to the most relevant sentences with just one click, offers an effective method of understanding content. It also lets you paste URLs.

Pros:

• Very little control over the summary generation
• Access using API
• No Ads
• Provide URL upload

Cons:

• Attractive user interface
• Doesn’t provide an editing option
• Word limit
• No export option

TextSummarization

TextSummarization is a dedicated platform to get the summary of a large text with just one click. This platform uses modern Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning technology to analyze the given input and summarize it. This platform is free for all users, but it features a lot of advertisements. In addition, the tool does not permit its users to import or export files to other standard formats for TXT, PDF, or Doc.

Pros:

• Simple User interface
• Freely available
• Can be used without registration
• Uses advanced technology such as NLP, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
• No cap on characters
• The article can be directly fetched using URLs
• Length of summarized output can be manipulated

Cons:

• The quality of summarized output is average
• Too much advertisement sometimes annoying
• It doesn’t provide an import/export option

Quillbot

Quillbot is another emerging Text summarization tool that uses the latest technology. However, its paraphrasing tools are a more appreciated tool than summarization. This tool enables users to summarize the article, documents, research paper with just one click. Quillbot’s summarization tool uses AI to analyze user input/documents, collect vital information, and encapsulate those to prepare the summary.

Quillbot provides two summary mode

Key sentence mode: Key sentence mode provides the bullet point of important information of the paragraph/document

Paragraph mode: Paragraph mode generates unique paragraphs by analyzing the content and extracting important information. It also uses an element of paraphrasing to prepare a unique summary.

Pros:

• User-friendly interface
• Free plan available
• No registration required for the free plan
• Accessible through API
• Provide extension

Cons:

• There is character limitation for both free and paid plan
• The quality of key sentence summarization mode is poor
• Sometimes it loses the content of the original text

Creating a concise and non-redundant summary with the help of a machine is not an easy task. This is our humble try to list down some of the trending summarization tools. Again I would like to emphasize that, no summarization tool available in the market is perfect but they are still very useful. We would urge you to try those yourself and give us feedback.