Summarizer

Summarizer finds long comments on Reddit and summarises them! In fact, you can summarise any lengthy article online.
What is Summarizer?
'Summarizer' is a time-saving Chrome extension designed to automatically condense complex articles, lengthy PDFs, and significant Reddit comments, into brief and concise summaries. It even positions any 'tl;dr' at the top of the comment for effortless understanding. Additional features include an automatic Imperial-to-metric converter for lengths and weights. More updates are anticipated with user feedback and suggestions.

Extension stats

Users: 4,000+
Rating: 3.46 (35)
Version: 0.65 (Last updated: 2013-07-27)
Creation date: 2013-07-26
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
  • contextMenus
Size: 54.84K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

Summarizer will save you the time-consuming pain of reading long articles and comments. On any website, you can select a long, boring article, right-click and summarise it in a few sentences!

This even works for those long PDF publications from prestigious universities you don't want to read.

Additionally, for you Redditers out there - good news! Long comments are automatically summarised, with any "tl;dr" placed at the top of the comment, along with the automatically-generated summary.

New Features:

  • Automatic Imperial-to-metric converter for lengths and weights - across all sites!
  • Improved summarizer will detect sentences better.

More sites and features to come! Tell me what you want in the feedback section.

Feedback is important to me and hope this extension saves you time too. Let me know of any bugs (currently in Beta) or features to add.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Adaptable means of summarizing with percentage control
  • Works from context menu for selected text or entire article
  • Great at Extractive Summarization
  • Does not crash and works on every page
Cons
  • Doesn't work consistently for some users
  • Oversummarizes content
  • Unclear usage instructions and redirects for some users
Most mentioned
  • Not working
  • Oversummarizes
  • Great performance
  • Context menu function
Recent reviews
not working
by Rafa Rodriguez, 2023-11-05

Doesn't work
by Sandeep Rane, 2023-07-13

Even after i clicked a right click on the selected text and select summarize option, nothing happened. if anyone can advice on this, please.
by Lama Obaisi, 2022-01-05
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Summarizer requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Summarizer is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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