Small Summarizeīut you will probably get the best results at around the 25–30% mark. You can move the slider to make it bigger or smaller, so you can go way down to 1–5% and get a super short summary. Your text will now be summarized, but it doesn’t stop there. Click it and it will open up the Summary application. Right click on the text, and you should see Summarize (it may be buried in a Services submenu). Enable Summarize Service Summarize It!īack in whatever application you were just using, highlight the text you want to summarize or Select All if you want to do the whole document.
In the right pane, scroll way down to the bottom of the Text section and you should see Summarize there.
Is Summarize There? Enabling Summarizeįrom that same Preview > Services menu, click Services Preferences. Do you see Summarize in the list like this screenshot? If not, you’re going to have to enable it. In this example in Preview I will go to Preview and then Services. Highlight some text and go to the Services menu. Open up a searchable PDF in Preview, a text file in a text editor, or a website in Safari. However, before I show you how to use it, we have to check if it is set up first. Sometimes there are hidden features in the nooks and crannies of the Mac operating system, and Summarize Text is one of them.