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PDF Summarizer

A one-page brief from a long document — the key sentences, extracted by a real algorithm running entirely in your browser. Your document is never sent to an AI server.

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Summary

    An Honest Summarizer That Never Sees Your Document

    Most “AI PDF summarizers” upload your document to a cloud model — a non-starter for contracts, medical records, or anything under NDA. This tool takes a different, honest approach: extractive summarization. It scores every sentence in the document by the significance of the words it contains (a classic frequency-based ranking with position weighting), then returns the highest-scoring sentences in their original order. The summary is made of the document's own exact sentences — nothing is paraphrased, invented, or hallucinated, and nothing is uploaded.

    That makes it ideal for a fast first pass over long reports, papers, and agreements: you see the document's most information-dense sentences with zero privacy trade-off. Everything runs on your device via open-source browser libraries — your files are never uploaded. You can verify it yourself.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Is this the same as ChatGPT-style summarization?

    No, and deliberately so. Generative summarizers paraphrase (and can misstate) your document, and they require uploading it. This is extractive: it selects the document's own most representative sentences using a transparent scoring algorithm that runs in your browser. What you read is exactly what the document says.

    How are sentences chosen?

    Every word is scored by how frequently it appears across the document (ignoring common stop-words). Each sentence is scored by the significance of its words, normalized for length, with a small boost for opening sentences. The top sentences are shown in their original order, alongside the document's dominant key terms.

    It says there is not enough readable text.

    The document is probably a scan with no text layer. Run it through our free OCR tool first — also fully on-device — then summarize the result.

    Is my document uploaded to a server?

    No. Text extraction (pdf.js) and sentence ranking both run in your browser. You can watch the network tab: no request ever carries your document.