Mac OS X - Summarize

[Rasheed]

Hidden in the Services of Cocoa applications (e.g. not FireFox, but Safari does have this) is Summarize. This little app enables you to create a summary of a text, because it picks the most important text and leaves out everything else.

Let's see what Summarize does with e frontier Releases Poser 7 (original text is more than 700 words)

Poser 7 delivers many new features and workflow improvements, including lip syncing, multiple undo, non-linear animation, universal poses and a new morphing tool mode for easily creating custom morph targets.

Or how about this article: Adobe to Release PDF for Industry Standardization

— Jan. 29, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it intends to release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

Or this Disney, Zemeckis join to produce 3-D films:

The company will used performance-capture technology, which digitally records an actor's movements and feeds them into a computer, as Zemeckis has done in Warner Bros' The Polar Express, which he directed, Columbia/Sony's Monster House, which he executive produced; and Beowulf, which he is directing and producing for distribution by WB and Paramount in November.

If you're using a localized version of Mac OS X (anything non-English), then you need to find the Summarize version in your own language. Here's a How to article from Apple. You can select your own language to see how to do it in your own locale.

I believe the service has been around since Mac OS 8.5, and is one of the hidden jems of the Mac operating system. If you have a large text of corporate bla-bla, use Summarize to see the executive version of the text.

[cribble]

To summarize what you said:

The company will used performance-capture technology, which digitally records an actor's movements and feeds them into a computer, as Zemeckis has done in Warner Bros' The Polar Express, which he directed, Columbia/Sony's Monster House, which he executive produced; and Beowulf, which he is directing and producing for distribution by WB and Paramount in November.


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I believe the service has been around since Mac OS 8.5, and is one of the hidden jems of the Mac operating system. If you have a large text of corporate bla-bla, use Summarize to see the executive version of the text.

[Manu]

It defaults to "Sentences" but it seems to work best when set to "Paragraph". Still, I'm quite impressed by it. Thanks for the heads up.