Comments on: Cprnc Smrzr

Question: Cprnc Smrzr

forallmankind — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:15:42 -0800

Does anyone use Copernic Summarizer?

I am curious to know if people use it as a genuine business/ professional tool, or if it's just something you run on those long AskMe's devoid of punctuation.

By: reklaw

reklaw — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:53:38 -0800

From my experiences with Copernic's search stuff, I'd say they tend to be long on promises and short on delivery. Wouldn't surprise me if their summarizer sucked too.

By: tuxster

tuxster — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:08:59 -0800

reklaw says "From my experiences with Copernic's search stuff, I'd say they tend to be long on promises and short on delivery. Wouldn't surprise me if their summarizer sucked too.

Wow, that's really insightful! I would have taken it seriously too, except for the fact that Copernic has one of the best, if not THE best, Desktop Search software in the market right now...

By: donp17

donp17 — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:19:21 -0800

ditto on their search product.

By: public

public — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:26:12 -0800

Hey, OS X has something like this built right in. It contracted this recent post down to

Now the proprietor insists this is not true and told me if I can prove it I can drink free Guinness in his pub for the rest of my life.

However that was in Maximum Summarization Mode. Set to a bit mode mellow level of information removal you get.

For years I have heard from various sources that certain pubs in the united states get their Guinness airlifted in from Ireland (or the U.K.).... Now the proprietor insists this is not true and told me if I can prove it I can drink free Guinness in his pub for the rest of my life.

basically you need really a rather long piece of text to get any decent use out of these things. Even 1-2 paragraphs isn't enough for it to actually cut things down and still remain legible.

By: public

public — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:30:19 -0800

Just in case anyone was wondering where this mostly useless/unused feature of OS X lived

By: spaceman_spiff

spaceman_spiff — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:35:03 -0800

Public: and this function can be found where?

By: public

public — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:44:24 -0800

To get a summary of a document [random bit of text you selected], select the text and choose Services from the application's menu, then choose Summarize.

By: forallmankind

forallmankind — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:00:32 -0800

does anyone actually have an answer for the question?

By: shivohum

shivohum — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:55:33 -0800

Copernic Desktop Search produced odd "delayed write failures" for me in Windows, which I suffered for weeks before uninstalling it. Be careful; these errors were alarming and froze my computer.

By: forallmankind

forallmankind — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:31:41 -0800

ask a stupid question... :-(

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:51:53 -0800

forallmankind: Have you tried the free trial from Copernic?

At the risk of adding to the stupid commetary, this article by Al Gore's daughter detailing her experiments with Microsoft Word's auto-summarize feature is quite entertaining.