How to use Text summarizer
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Paste the text
Copy the article, report, transcript or notes into the box; it needs at least 200 characters.
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Set length and format
Short, Medium or Detailed, as bullet points or a paragraph, and the language of the summary.
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Summarize
The summary appears in a few seconds with the word count before and after.
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Check before reusing
Copy it or save a .txt file, and look up any figure in the source before you quote it.
Limits and Pro
Free: texts of 200 to 20,000 characters (about 3,000 words) and 20 AI requests a day per connection, at most 5 per minute, shared with the other Write with AI tools.
Pro accepts texts of up to 60,000 characters and allows 200 requests a day. See Pro
About Text summarizer
Long reading often comes down to a few points: what a report found, what a meeting decided, what a chapter argues. Paste up to 20,000 characters, about 3,000 words, and the summarizer returns either bullet points or a paragraph. Short keeps only the essentials, three points or two to three sentences; Medium gives five to seven points or one full paragraph; Detailed covers every section in eight to twelve points or two to three paragraphs.
The summary is written by Claude, Anthropic's AI model, with instructions to use only what your text says: no outside facts, no opinions, and names, figures and dates copied exactly. Where the text reports a claim or a study, the summary says whose claim it is instead of presenting it as settled fact. A badge shows the word count before and after, so you can see how far the text was condensed.
By default the summary is in the language of the text. You can also choose a different summary language, which is handy for getting the gist of a Russian news article in English or an English report in Uzbek.
The summarizer can't open links or files, so paste the text itself; for a PDF, copy its text out first. A summary leaves out detail by design, so go back to the source before quoting it, citing a number or basing a decision on it.
Privacy
The text you paste stays in this tab until you press Summarize. Then it is sent, with your length, format and language choices, to our server and from there to Anthropic's API; the summary comes back and nothing is kept on our side, not even in logs. Anthropic doesn't train its models on text received through its API. Your option choices are saved in this browser.
Features
Bullets or a paragraph
Three lengths in each format, from the essentials to a section-by-section digest.
Only what the text says
No outside facts or opinions; names, numbers and dates are kept exact and claims stay attributed.
Summary in another language
Keep the text's language or get the summary in any of the sixteen in the menu.