A new startup called Topicmarks has created some very interesting technology for summarizing long documents. Give it a try.
You can send in texts in many ways:
- Upload a file from your computer
- Enter a URL to download from the web
- Copy/paste text
- Send in a file by email
You can send in texts in many formats:
- Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) (embedded text, not graphics)
- Word (.doc)
- HyperText (.html)
- Text (.txt)
You can explore the Text Knodes in many perspectives:
- Fact listings
- Summary/abstract
- Keywords (tag cloud)
- Index
- [soon] Outline
You can interact with the chosen perspective in many ways:
- Click on a word or sentence to dig deeper
- Restrict listed content to a search term
- Lengthen or shorten the text of a summary
- Filter the index by starting letter
- [soon] Answer quiz questions about the text
