GreedSum: Automatic Web-Page Text Summarizer

Summarizes Page Text to a given number of sentences and highlights them in the original text.

GreedSum: Automatic Web-Page Text Summarizer

GreedSum: Automatic Web-Page Text Summarizer is a Chrome extension that highlights the most important sentences in a webpage's text, allowing users to specify the number of sentences and choose the highlighting color. It provides better text extraction and improved sentence highlighting. Users can save the bullet point summary as HTML.
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Extension stats

Users: 46
-4
Version: 4.0 (Last updated: 2023-08-22)
Creation date: 2023-07-16
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
Size: 352.26K
URLs: Website

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Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

FUNCTIONALITY:

  • Highlights the most important sentences in the text of an html page.
  • Allows to select the highlighting color.
  • Lets the user define how many of the most important sentences should be found or the compression ratio (ex. if you want 10% of the original text, then choose 0.1).
  • Enables to save the obtained bullet point summary of the text as html.

FIXED:

  1. Inclusion of too short sentences is now avoided.
  2. Better text extraction from web-pages using Readability module by Mozilla.
  3. Sentence highlighting on pages is now working much better.
  4. Popup html design improved using JQuery and Bootstrap.
  5. Added radio button control to choose between summarizing by number of sentences or the compression ratio.

Extension safety

Risk impact

GreedSum: Automatic Web-Page Text Summarizer requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

GreedSum: Automatic Web-Page Text Summarizer has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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