Choose your summary style
Summaries are generated from the full document — no word limits.
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Move from one-off browser work to larger files, background jobs, API automation, and PDF audio when the document flow grows.
How It Works
Step 1: Upload Your PDF
Drop a research paper, contract, or long report. The page parses text in-browser; nothing uploads to an external API.
Step 2: Pick Summary Length
Choose short bullet points, a one-paragraph TL;DR, or a section-by-section breakdown — the local model picks salient sentences and key entities.
Step 3: Copy or Download
Copy the summary to clipboard or save as Markdown / TXT. Pair with our PDF Read Aloud tool for hands-free briefings.
Why Use This Tool
- Answers “summarize a PDF without uploading” — runs entirely on-device for privacy-conscious workflows
- Works on long contracts, product spec PDFs, and academic papers where full-text upload to a third party is forbidden
- No daily token cap, no signup; iterate freely on summary length and style
- Pairs with OCR PDF and PDF-to-Markdown so even scanned docs flow into your summary
Common Use Cases
Summarize legal contracts before client calls, get a TL;DR of arXiv papers for daily reading, condense customer-feedback PDFs for product reviews, and pre-read board packs in minutes. Founders summarize investor memos; analysts summarize earnings PDFs; students compress textbook chapters into revision notes — all without sending the source to a cloud service.
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