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Posted by pereh
Jul 11, 2009 at 07:28 PM
Hello,
I just tested Theme Reader (so to speak, it just gave me errors in return), and the support mentioned that they will switch from the Cirilabs engine to Context Organizer. So I had a look at this one, and besides problems with some specialities of the german language, it looks that it is no longer under active development.
Does anyone know alternatives to these, meaning: software that creates summaries of documents and webpages?
Thanks,
Peter.
Posted by Susanne
Jul 12, 2009 at 05:23 AM
Hi Peter,
I am not sure about what exactly you are looking for, but maybe you want to check out InfoRapid’s KnowledgeMap - it is a quirky kind of Software that supports managing knowledge in either tabular or mindmap formats, allows import of various document formats and does support some kind of textual analysis. And… it is from a german developer, so it should provide all the required support for Umlaute and even the “?”.
Link: http://www.inforapid.de/html/knowledgemap.htm
Susanne
Posted by pereh
Jul 12, 2009 at 08:01 AM
Hello Susanne,
thanks for your answer.
I am looking for a tool that scans documents and web pages and produces some kind of summary. Some tools have the ability to recognize major themes and keywords, and the original document can then be read using this information.
Best regards,
Peter.
Posted by Wojciech
Jul 12, 2009 at 02:24 PM
Peter,
I use Copernic Summarizer sometimes:
http://www.copernic.com/en/products/summarizer/
From their web page:
“Feature Overview
Creates document summaries of any text file (including PDFs) or Web page
Copernic Summarizer can analyze a text of any length, on any subject, in any one of four languages, and create a document summary as short or as long as you want it to be. It can summarize Word documents, Web pages, PDF files, email messages and even text from the Clipboard.
To be honest, the results are not very useful, but one can get some ideas what a document or a page is about if there is no time for careful reading.
Best regards,
W.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jul 12, 2009 at 04:06 PM
Hi Peter.
I also tried Copernic Summarizer a few years ago with German and English texts. The results were not really useful. That may have changed in the meantime - but honestly I do not think so.
Franz