Introduction

Abstract generator is an AI tool that automatically generates summaries. Now there are many artificial intelligence summary tools on the market, which is the most suitable choice for you?

To reach our conclusions, we tested eight AI summary tools that are popular in the market.

We used two types of text: a short news article and a longer academic journal article. We evaluate tools based on the clarity, accuracy, and brevity of our summaries.

Next, we will discuss the features of each AI summary tool in turn, hoping to help you choose the right tool for you.

1. Nex

We found Nex‘s summarizer to be the most effective tool available. Its technology is more advanced and creative than any other tool. It provides the key sentence pattern and paragraph pattern. We found the paragraph pattern to be the most useful.

This pattern effectively combines information from multiple sentences to form a concise and clear summary. It is also very effective at summarizing the longer test text. The tool usefully highlights the input text used in the summary. Additionally, it allows you to select keywords to focus on if you want a summary for a specific topic. You can get the detailed methods from another article.

Even in this tool, we noticed some errors: it occasionally misinterpreted the meaning of the text, or combined sentences in a misleading way. At one point, it seems to introduce a typo (” collectivist “) that does not exist in the original text.

2. Resoomer

After using it, we found that Resoomer, while not as powerful as Nex, does one thing well – it generates creative summaries that combine information from different sentences in a relatively smooth way.

It’s capable of summarizing long text, but the summaries it generates are overly lengthy and spread across multiple pages we have to click through, which limits its usefulness. And Resoomer’s summary simply extracts the original sentence from the article’s sentence, rather than generating an intelligible text. After testing, we agreed that the most useful model is the “assisted” model, which unfortunately is only available with a paid subscription.

3. Scribbr

Scribbr’s summarizer is powered by QuillBot technology, which means that it offers the same modes, options, and quality-of-life features such as highlighting text used in the summary. And it produces similarly creative summaries: clear, concise, and fluently written.

The Scribbr summarizer does have one key limitation compared to the QuillBot tool: it cannot handle longer texts, since it has a limit of 600 words per input. The Scribbr tool is free, with no sign-up required and no premium version available right now.

4. Sassbook

We found that Sassbook provided relatively creative summaries, combining information from different sentences in a similar way to QuillBot or Resoomer. But we found the results less clear than in those tools.

Especially for the longer text, we saw that Sassbook summaries were not very coherently structured, presenting information in a somewhat random order that was hard to follow. We also noticed the tool’s tendency to insert unnecessary text such as “Authors say that …”

Moreover, the tool can only handle longer texts if you pay for a premium subscription, and we found the premium subscription to be unreasonably priced at $39 a month. Perhaps if you find the other tools included in the subscription useful, it could be worth the price. For the summarizer alone, it certainly isn’t worth it, and there are much better and cheaper options out there.

5. Paraphraser

Paraphraser is a completely free tool that does not require a paid subscription. It provides two modes of “summarizer” and “AI summarizer”, but in the process of use, the results produced by the two modes are not obvious to us.

Select Bullet mode to render the same text as paragraph mode, but with bullets. Since the length of the summary cannot be adjusted efficiently, the summary is always longer than we would like: more than half the length of the full text.

There are also some confusing errors in the output: the summary often ends with a sentence like “Please shorten this article,” which obviously shouldn’t be there. While the word limit is not mentioned, this tool does not work in practice for our longer text, summarizing only the first 1,000 words.

6. TLDR This

The TLDR This tool seems to operate in a very basic way, just taking a few sentences from the text and presenting them in the order in which they originally appeared. It does not combine or paraphrase information in a creative way, even in its premium “AI” mode, which we found produced results nearly identical to those of the free “key sentences” mode.

Like some other tools, it can pick out keywords from the text. But the keywords selected are sometimes not very logical (e.g., “Percent Last Year”), and clicking on them just googles them rather than doing anything in the tool itself. We also did not notice any significant differences between the “short” and “detailed” modes.

Because of its very basic approach and the lack of noticeable differences between its modes, we don’t advise paying for TLDR This.

7. Rephrase

Like TLDR This, Rephrase’s summarizer seemed to just select sentences from the text and present them in the same order again, without any creative recombination of information. In this case, the only way it modified the text was by putting the paragraph breaks at different points.

Rephrase’s tool is free, but, as mentioned, it’s extremely basic. It also lacks any options to change the length or format of the summary. As with other tools like this, the sentences it selects feel very random and often make no sense out of context, meaning the “summary” provided is effectively useless.

No word limit is indicated in the tool, but in practice we found that it could only summarize the first 1,500 words of our longer text. We also found the interface somewhat cluttered with ads.

8. Editpad

Editpad is one of the worst tools we’ve ever tested. Similarly, it offers two modes, one for the summarizer and one for the AI summarizer.

But in use, Editpad’s AI Summarizer mode seems worse than the free one, simply extracting the text of a sentence and reorganizing it, with no deeper sentence understanding. We note that the AI Summarizer mode differs in only two ways: it can’t summarize long text (free mode can), and it doesn’t have any options about the length of the summary.

Conclusion

In this article, Nex emerged as the most advanced and effective AI tool. It provides useful key sentences and paragraph patterns for summaries. Other AI tool also have their own advantages. Resoomer generates creative summaries. Scribbr offers similar creative summaries. Editpad was one of the worst tools tested. Overall, the choice of a suitable AI summary tool depends on your specific needs and your preferences. We can take into account factors such as the type of text, desired summary length, and budget. And then choose a suitable AI tool for work and study.