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Jul
Open Text Summarizer
http://libots.sourceforge.net/
The Open Text Summarizer is an open source tool for summarizing texts. The program reads a text and decides which sentences are important and which are not. It ships with Ubuntu, Fedora and other major linux distros. Several academic publications have benchmarked it and praised it.
Example 1:
cat articles/sacbee1.txt | ./ots –ratio 20 –html
This command will summarize the article from the Sacramento Bee (sacbee1.txt) and highlight the 20% of sentences most important to the content of the article.
Example 2:
cat articles/sacbee1.txt | ./ots –ratio 40
This command will summarize the article, giving the 40% of the article which is most important, and print it as text.