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Tried two different AI tools for summarizing long research papers last week
I had to get through a stack of PDFs for a project and tried two free tools, one called 'QuickSum' and another just called 'Summarizer'. QuickSum gave me bullet points that were basically just the first sentence of each paragraph, so I still had to read everything. Summarizer, on the other hand, actually read the whole thing and gave me a short paragraph that captured the main argument and the key evidence, like the sample size from a study on page 7. It saved me probably three hours of work. The difference was that Summarizer seemed to understand context, not just pull text. I guess one was just doing simple extraction and the other was actually processing the meaning. Has anyone else found a free tool that's good for this kind of deep summary?
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