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Text Summarizer

Third-party service

Condense a long article or block of text into a short summary with AI — choose the target length and whether you want flowing prose or a bulleted list of key points.

Input

Minimum 200 characters, maximum 20,000 characters.

Output

Summary
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Guides

Paste an article, report, or any long block of text and get an AI-generated summary — choose how long you want it and whether you'd rather read flowing prose or a scannable bulleted list.

How to use it

  1. Paste the text you want to summarize (200 to 20,000 characters).
  2. Choose a summary length: short (2-3 sentences), medium (one paragraph), or long (2-3 paragraphs).
  3. Choose a format: paragraph for flowing prose, or bullet points for a scannable list of the key points.
  4. Click Summarize.

Paragraph vs. bullet points

  • Paragraph reads naturally and works well when you want to drop the summary straight into a document, email, or newsletter blurb.
  • Bullet points breaks the same content into a scannable list — better for skimming a long report quickly, or pulling out the key takeaways for a meeting or a social post.

Both formats cover only what's actually in the text you pasted — the summarizer doesn't add outside facts or its own opinion.

Tips

  • Longer, more detailed source text generally produces a more accurate summary — a single paragraph doesn't leave the model much to condense.
  • If the summary misses something important, try the "long" length first — a shorter target sometimes drops a secondary point to stay concise.
  • For a summary you can share or embed without regenerating it, copy the output text — like every AI-generated tool on this site, the result isn't reproducible from a shared link (it's non-deterministic, so a link would just spend credits regenerating a different answer).

Is my text stored anywhere?

Your pasted text is sent to an AI provider to generate the summary, then discarded — it isn't logged, stored, or used to train anything. See the third-party data badge above the tool for details.

Can I summarize a webpage or a PDF instead of pasted text?

Not directly — paste the text itself. For a PDF, extract the text first (most PDF readers support copy-paste, or use a PDF converter to get plain text out first).

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Use it from code

From 24 credits per call

REST API

curl -X POST https://api.iotools.cloud/v1/tool/text-summarizer \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "inputText": "The advancement of artificial intelligence has f…"
  }'

Swap in your own key from your account. The tool's fields are the body — no wrapper.

Ask an AI agent

Use the IOTools `text-summarizer` tool (Text Summarizer) on this input:

YOUR_INPUT_HERE

Paste this at any agent connected to the IOTools MCP server, then add your input.

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