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Summary of long documents, reports or books

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Summary of long documents, reports or books

Example result

Example for the Standard package

Text rewrite: "About us" page of a family bakery for new customers

Before (excerpt)

It all began many, many years ago, back in 1987, when our grandmother Rosa, who had always loved baking ever since she was a little girl growing up in the countryside, decided, after a lot of thinking and with the support of the whole family, to open a small bakery on Mill Lane. In those days there were not so many bakeries around and people really appreciated having fresh bread. Over the years, we have grown a lot and nowadays we bake more than 40 kinds of bread and pastries every day, and we also try our best to use local ingredients whenever it is possible to do so.

After (excerpt)

Baking on Mill Lane since 1987

Rosa opened our first bakery on Mill Lane in 1987 with one oven and three recipes from her village. Today her grandchildren run two shops and bake more than 40 kinds of bread and pastries every morning.

We still work the way she did: long, slow fermentation, flour from a mill 30 miles away and butter from a local dairy. As Rosa put it, "Good bread needs time, not tricks."

For cafés and restaurants

Since 2024 we also bake for cafés. Order by 2 pm and your bread arrives before 7 am the next day, six days a week.

Summary of changes

WhatBeforeAfter
Length1,380 words790 words (−43%)
StructureOne long story in 11 paragraphs4 sections: our story, how we bake, for cafés, visit us
AudienceNeighbours who know the familyNew customers and café owners
SentencesAverage 31 wordsAverage 14 words

What was changed:

  • Repeated ideas cut (the "love of baking" appeared 5 times; now once, through what Rosa did)
  • Vague phrases like "try our best to use local ingredients" replaced with the concrete facts you gave us elsewhere on the page (the mill, the dairy)
  • A new section for cafés built only from the wholesale details in your brief (order time, delivery time, days)
  • Headings added so a café owner can find "For cafés" without reading the whole story

What stayed exactly the same: the year 1987, Mill Lane, "more than 40 kinds", the 30-mile distance to the mill and Rosa's quote, word for word.

Client: Larkfield Bakery, a family bakery with two shops and a new wholesale line for cafés Input: the "About us" page, 1,380 words, written 10 years ago for neighbours who already knew the family Brief: rewrite for café owners and new customers; keep it warm but shorter and more concrete; keep all dates, numbers and the grandmother's quote unchanged

The client and all details are made up.

About this service

We read long reports, research papers, contracts, meeting transcripts or book chapters and write a summary that gives you the essentials in minutes. You get the main points in order of importance, the key numbers and conclusions, and a list of decisions or action items where the document contains them. Everything in the summary comes from the text itself: no outside opinions are added.

What is included

  • What you getA summary of the length in your package, a bullet list of key points and, where relevant, decisions and action items, as text on the order page and as a Word (.docx) file.
  • Main points by importanceNot just in the order of the source
  • Key numbers and conclusionsCopied accurately from the text
  • Decisions and action itemsWho does what, where the text says so
  • Nothing addedNo outside facts or opinions
  • Key points listFor a quick scan

How it works

  1. 1
    BriefYou send the document and your goal
  2. 2
    Reading and summaryWe read the whole text and condense it
  3. 3
    DeliveryYou get the summary and key points

What we need from you

The document text pasted into the brief or photos of the pages, what you need the summary for and who will read it. Documents can also be attached as PDF, Word or Excel files.

We will ask you:

  • What do you need the summary for?
  • Which parts matter most to you?
  • Should the summary be in a different language than the source?

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PackagesBasicSource up to 4,000 words$10StandardSource up to 12,000 words$20PremiumSource up to 25,000 words$39
Deadline1 day2 days3 days
Revisions123
Source lengthup to 4,000 wordsup to 12,000 wordsup to 25,000 words
Summary lengthup to 300 wordsup to 700 wordsup to 1,200 words
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You pay when you order, but the money is released only for accepted work.

  • Fixed priceThe package price does not change after you pay.
  • The money is reservedWhen you pay, the amount is only reserved. It is released to the service once you accept the work.
  • Checked before deliveryEvery result goes through a quality check before it reaches you, and you see it on the order page before accepting it.
  • Free revisionsAsk for changes within your brief as many times as the package allows.
  • Acceptance after 3 daysIf within 3 days of delivery you neither accept the work nor ask for changes, it is accepted automatically. If you write in the order chat after delivery, the order waits; once we answer, we may start the 3 days again and will say so in the chat.
  • Redo or a full refundIf the result does not match your brief and the revisions did not fix it, or the work takes more than twice its deadline, write in the order chat: we will redo the work or refund the payment in full.
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Questions and answers

Can you summarize a whole book?

Up to 25,000 words in one order. For a longer book, order it in parts, chapter by chapter.

Will you add your own opinion?

No. The summary reflects only what the document says.

Can I send a PDF?

Yes, attach it to the brief: up to 3 files of 50 MB each. A scanned PDF without a text layer cannot be read, so send such pages as photos or scans, or paste the text.

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