When working on a project, study work or simply to collect information to expand our knowledge about certain topics or subjects, the power summarize the content is essential if we do not want to take more time than is strictly necessary and be able to focus our activity on shaping the information collected.
On the internet we have at our disposal a large number of applications that allow us summarize texts easily. Fortunately, we can also find applications of this type for Android devices, although sometimes the result is much more effective on a desktop computer or using a web version.
The applications that we show you below for summarize texts with the mobile, they are not perfect, so we should always check the summaries that it offers us. The best method to check which is the best application to perform this function is to always check its operation with the same text, a text that is not too long and that we have previously read.
It is important to previously read the content that we want to summarize for check if all important parts have been covered in the summary and that some have not been omitted that, on a personal level, we can consider interesting since we want to deal with it in other sections of the work.
All these apps have distinctive characteristics that will allow users to make the right choice based on their needs and goals. But one thing is clear: these mobile applications for text analysis will help to get rid of the need to spend wasted time while reading and checking huge amounts of documents, reviews, news, financial articles, etc.
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linguakit
Linguakit is an application for Android that offers the possibility not only to extract information, but also to translate, conjugate and analyze texts. It supports a wide variety of languages and is capable of summarizing handwritten documents (although it does not recognize medical handwriting).
This application puts at our disposal a large number of tools such as:
- Create text summaries
- Spelling checker.
- Translator.
- Syntactic analysis.
- Semantic analysis.
- Sentiment analysis
- Multi-word extractor
- Entity Recognizer
LinguaKit is available for download free of charge, a version that limits the number of queries to 5 without having to register. If we want to get the most out of the application, we must go to the checkout and pay for one of the different subscriptions that it offers us (they are not expensive, by the way).
sumit!
SumIt is an application that handles make summaries automatically, ideal for those people who do not have time to analyze all the content they have access to, research documents or any long text.
This application uses a relatively simple but effective algorithm when extract key sentences and phrases from the text to create a bullet list style summary. It allows us to share the summaries through any messaging applications, email ...
The operation is as simple as paste the URL where the text we want to summarize is located. It does not support URLs of documents stored in Google Drive. SumIt is a totally free app, it does not include ads or in-app purchases.
TextSummary
Text Summary is an efficient tool created to summarize texts automatically and quickly that takes care of extract the most relevant information from books, texts, documents… The application works by introducing the link to the page where the text is located, pasting the text to be translated or directly scanning the text through photographs.
Once the application has created the summary, we can store it in pdf, epub, docx, pptx, odt or plain text format to format later. In addition, it also allows us to listen to the summary created, a fantastic function that allows us to check if the summary created meets our needs while we are doing other things.
Text Summary is available for your download completely free. Include ads and in-app purchases to unlock access to each and every feature in addition to removing ads.
Summarizer and Paraphraser
Summarizer allows us to summarize articles, articles or documents extracting key points instantly thanks to artificial intelligence which uses natural language processing to locate critical information while maintaining the original context.
It can be used to create a short document summary from a large document while keeping the most meaningful information using algorithms. Text Summary is an application designed to summarize texts automatically and quickly, allowing you to save time when selecting the most relevant information of your books or texts.
Summarizer and Paraphraser is available for your download completely free and includes ads but no in-app purchases. This application is designed to work with texts in English only, at least at the time of publishing this article.
Other options
The number of applications available in the Play Store that really work as they claim in their description it is very small, since it is not an easy process to carry out.
If none of these applications meets your needs, I invite you to take a look at the following web pages, which, as I have commented above, deliver better results than mobile apps, since they have greater versatility when it comes to operating as they are dedicated servers who perform the task of summarizing the texts:
SMMRY
A more than interesting option to summarize texts through a browser, we find it in SMMRY, a website that allows us to enter texts in both Spanish and English. This website allows us to create up to 100 daily summaries. If we want to expand that number, we have to go through the checkout.
Resomer
Resomer is focused on summarize academic texts, so don't expect to be able to create book summaries. It also works through an extension available for Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Microsoft Edge with a 500 word limit.
There is also a paid version that allows us to summarize texts of up to 40.000 words and a premium version that places it at limit to 200.000 words. This service works in Spanish, English, German and Italian.