What this text summarizer does
Paste up to 2,000 characters into this text summarizer and you get the key points back. Your pick of shape: bullets, a short paragraph, or one TL;DR line.
Who writes it? An AI model, through our server. That's the reason for the sign-in (free account, email confirmed). Usually it's back in 2 to 6 seconds.
You make two choices before you press Summarize. Format sets the shape of the answer. Length sets how many points you get.
- Bullets, the default. A bullet point summary, one point a line.
- Paragraph. One or two of them, plain prose.
- TL;DR. A single line opening with "TL;DR:", a sentence or two long.
Lengths, then. Short aims for 3 or 4 points, roughly 60 words. Medium (where it starts) gives 5 or 6, nearer 120. Detailed: 8 to 10 points, something like 200 words.
You get the summary and nothing around it. US English. No title, no "Here is your summary", no headings.
One job posting, summarized two ways
The Try an example button above the form loads a Marketing Coordinator posting from Northwind Traders. I pressed it on November 6, 2026, and the counter above the box said 456 / 2,000.
So 456 characters. I counted 68 words, not counting bullet markers, over 12 lines. A title, two headings, three duties, five requirements, one pay line.
One honest note before the results. My local copy of GetJobTools runs without a live AI key, so I had no real summary to show here. Both versions below are hand-written, following the summarizer's instructions. Yours will be worded differently.
Short, Bullets, written by hand:
- Marketing Coordinator at Northwind Traders, hybrid, in Austin, TX.
- Plans email and social campaigns, reports results from Google Analytics every week and works with sales on launches.
- Asks for 2+ years in marketing, HubSpot or Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Excel, SEO and running several launches at once.
- Pays $58,000 to $66,000 a year plus a bonus.
TL;DR, also by hand: "TL;DR: Northwind Traders wants a hybrid Marketing Coordinator in Austin with 2+ years of marketing and HubSpot or Salesforce skills, paying $58,000 to $66,000 plus bonus."
Then I check them against the posting, line by line. An AI summarizer is quick to write and quick to lose a word, so this part is mine.
Pay first. Both ends of the range made it, and so did the bonus.
Then the little words. "HubSpot or Salesforce Marketing Cloud" has to keep its "or". A summary that says "and" asks you for a second platform the company never wanted.
What fell out? The bullets dropped "data" from "Strong Excel and data skills", and the content writing. The TL;DR dropped the weekly reporting, the SEO and the content writing. Small on the page. In an interview, weekly reporting is a question waiting to happen.
And my verdict on this one? The bullets came to 55 words against the posting's 68. That saves very little. A text summarizer earns its run on something four or five times that long, like a full posting with the company blurb and the benefits list still attached.
Pick the length by what you do next
- Got a pile of postings or articles and just want to say "summarize this for me"? Short. Don't quote from it though. Words like "usually" and "up to" tend to vanish.
- Reading a job description, a news story or a company's About page for the first time before an interview? I'd use Medium.
- If you'll act on it, or sit an exam on it (a funding rule, a course reading, a policy), go Detailed. The extra points have room for dates and conditions.
- Only want the headline? TL;DR.
Students: same settings work for a lecture notes summary or reading notes. Under each point I'd jot an example of my own. The summary can't know more than the text did.
Free text summarizer limits
- Sign in first. Guests get a Log in to summarize button where the Summarize button would be.
- On a free account you get 10 AI runs a day, and they're shared. The paraphraser, the cover letter tool, every AI tool here takes from the same 10. Hitting Regenerate costs one. Back to 10 at midnight UTC.
- At least 100 characters, at most 2,000. Going by the sample posting's 6.7 characters a word, 2,000 is about 300 words.
- There's a 600-token cap on the answer. Even Detailed on a long text stays fairly tight.
- No more than 10 AI requests in any minute, Pro included.
- Pro lifts that to 200 runs and 10,000 characters per paste, and adds the provider's larger model and a History that keeps runs for 90 days. Prices are listed on our pricing page.
- Have an API key of your own? Save it in your account under AI keys and those runs stop counting toward the 10. The one-minute cap still holds.
- A run that fails on our side or the provider's does not use up one of your 10.
Longer than the box?
Split it up. Summarize each section, stick the summaries together, then summarize that.
A 6,000-character chapter costs four runs that way on a free account. Three sections, then one summary of the three summaries.
Paste the body and nothing else. Menus, cookie banners, share buttons, "related articles": all of it eats characters your actual text needed.
PDF or a web link? It can't open either. It reads the box, full stop. So open the file or page yourself, copy what you need, paste.
Hoping for an abstract generator? It'll condense a paper into key points, sure. Journals have their own rules for abstracts, so I'd use what comes out as notes and write the abstract myself.
Summarise a job description, then read four lines yourself
A summary can merge or drop the one line that decides whether you should apply at all. I go back to the original posting for these:
- Visa, sponsorship, right to work.
- Days on site, and how much travel.
- Whether a pay figure is base pay or the whole package.
- Which skills sit under "required" and which under "preferred". Summaries love to merge the two lists.
Then I put the requirements next to my resume in the ATS resume checker, which lists the posting's terms my resume is missing. Our guide on how to summarize a job description takes one posting apart by hand, step by step.
Want to reword a paragraph instead of using a summary generator to shorten text? That is the paraphrasing tool, which keeps the length and changes the words.
Where your text goes
Press Summarize and three things go to our server: the text, the format and the length. Nothing on the form is filled in from your account.
We put our fixed instruction in front of your text and pass both to an AI provider; you will find which ones in the privacy policy. The provider never gets your name, your email or your account number.
What we log per run: the tool, the provider and model, whose key ran it, the token counts, the time in milliseconds, ok or failed, and your IP address run through a hash. The text is not in that row.
Your 10 a day are tracked apart from that log, as a single number for each account and each UTC date.
Is the summary saved? On a free account, no.
On Pro with History on, which is how a Pro account starts, History holds the summary, the format and the length, and drops them after 90 days. A run you start from an application in your account is filed with that application, on any plan.
Your pasted text isn't saved, ever. None of it trains an AI model.
One more thing leaves every tool page when you close it: a usage count with the tool's name, whether you used it and how many seconds. No text, no user ID.
Summarizing a contract or a personal email? Cut the names and account numbers out first.
Who made it
This summarizer is ours, made at GetJobTools; read the about page for who is behind the site.
It sits in our interviews topic next to the interview answer generator. Did a summary add a fact your text never had? Send us both, text and summary, through the contact form. We'll check what the model was told.
FAQ
How do I summarize an article?
Log in. Paste the article's body. Choose Bullets, Paragraph or TL;DR, choose a length, press Summarize. Free accounts get 10 AI runs a day, shared with every other AI tool here.
Can the summarizer read a PDF or a web link?
No, just pasted text: 100 characters at least, 2,000 on free. Copy the bit you want from the PDF or page and paste that.
Will it add anything that was not in my text?
It's instructed not to: no opinions, no outside facts. Still, a language model can smudge a condition or lose a qualifier. Before relying on it, check each figure and date against the original.
How long can the text be?
Free: 2,000 characters. Pro: 10,000. Minimum 100 either way. Longer chapter or report? Do it in sections, then summarize the summaries.
How long will the summary be?
Short runs about 60 words (3 or 4 points). Medium, about 120 (5 or 6). Detailed, about 200 (8 to 10). TL;DR: a sentence, maybe two.
Do you store the text I paste?
No. It goes to our server and on to an AI provider to write the summary, and it is never saved. On Pro with History on, History keeps the summary and your two settings for 90 days.