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Summarization in Assistant

In Assistant, you can either upload a document or directly enter some text into the input field in the Source area for summarization.

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To summarize the text:​

  1. Type or paste the text into the input field in the Source area.
  2. Fill out the other input fields as needed. Fields with an asterisk (*) are mandatory.
  3. Click the button "Summarize".
  4. The generated summary will appear in the Summary area.
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Please note: You can generate a new summary by clicking the "Summarize" button again. A new summary will replace the previous one.

To summarize a document:​

  1. Click on the button "Upload document" on the top of the Source area.
  2. Select a file in the "Upload document" popup from your computer.
  3. Click the button "Upload" to upload the document.
  4. Fill out the input fields below as needed. Fields with an asterisk (*) are mandatory.
  5. Click the button "Summarize".
  6. The generated summary will appear in the Summary area.

The generated summary appears in the Summary area.

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Please note: If you upload a document after summarizing some text, the newly uploaded document will be used for summarization and the previous input text will be removed.

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  • Only one document can be uploaded at a time.
  • The supported document formats are .docx, .pdf, .txt.
  • The maximal document size is 20 MB.
  • Assistant supports for PDF documents which require optical-character recognition (OCR), i.e., scanned documents. This is currently limited to documents which have at most five pages.

To edit summary:​

  1. Summarize your text or document.
  2. Click on the summary in the Summary area and start editing it.

To copy summary:​

  1. Summarize your text or document.
  2. Click on the "Copy summary" icon in the Summary area.
  3. The summary text will be copied and can then be pasted anywhere.

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To clear source text:​

  1. To delete the text click the cross icon in the Source area.
  2. The source text and summary will be immediately deleted.

To delete the document:​

  1. To delete the uploaded document, click the cross icon next to the uploaded document.
  2. The uploaded document and its summary will be immediately deleted.

Supported languages:​

  • English
  • German