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Springboard Summarizer for Internet Explorer 1

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Price: Free to try (100-use trial); $30.00 to buy
Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
Date added: June 08, 2006
Total Downloads: 330
Downloads last week: 1
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CNET editors' rating: 3.0 stars
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Reviewed by: CNET Staff

It's a bit misleading to call the text this Internet Explorer add-on pulls from a Web page a true summary. Springboard Summarizer's interface is a single button and simple input box toolbar for Internet Explorer. The program is easy to install, learn, and operate, but doesn't seem any more useful than cut and paste.

A Help manual isn't needed for this simple app. Surf to any Web page, enter a percentage of text in the toolbar, and click a single button. Springboard Summarizer pops up a short summary of the Web page that is easily copied to the clipboard. Unfortunately, the summary is created by copying the page text and simply skipping sentences. The smaller the chosen percentage, the more sentences are skipped. While it might be useful to a select few, merely skipping sentences does not create a coherent summary. For users who use the summary as merely a start, it is easy to edit the text in the pop-up, but that seems to defeat the purpose.

Of course, this toolbar doesn't work on Flash-based sites, or any Web site that depends on video or sound. Springboard Summarizer failed to impress us with its less-than-useful summaries.

Publisher's description

From Springboard Software :

The summarizer is an easy-to-use Internet explorer toolbar to help generate one-click summaries of Web pages. Its on-the-fly summaries helps improve comprehension and helps you get to the gist of the article or page very quickly. Just unzip the installer and run the setup.exe file and go through the setup process. Once done you have to enable the summarizer toolbar in your Internet explorer menu by clicking on View, Toolbars, Springboard Summarizer.

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