The new academic year has just started and so have studies. As you gear up to handle new lessons, it is likely that you wish to have a shorter version of everything you are going to read and this is where www.smmry.com comes to your rescue.

As the name suggests Smmry (pronounced as summary), is a site dedicated to shortening lengthy texts/articles or news, into the number of sentences you want — all you have to do is copy and paste text, PDFs, websites, or online articles into the text box, upload a PDF file or paste a URL to begin. Then choose the number of sentences for the summary and click the summarise box to view your summary.

Magic isn’t it? So how does it do it?

Smmry explains its core algorithm in a few steps, which are by reorganising the summary by focussing on a topic, by selecting a keyword, removing transition phrases, removing unnecessary clauses and removing excessive examples.

The site further associates words with their grammatical counterparts, calculates the occurrence of each word in the text, detect which periods represent the end of a sentence,split up the text into individual sentences and a lot more to make it way easier for you to read.

So if you are working on a research project and wish to quickly determine content and viability of using various websites Smmry can prove to be very helpful.

To make your content easier to understand and shorter to read, visit www.smmry.com

Published in Dawn, Young World August 12th, 2017