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✨ ots — Open Text Summarizer ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because ots is about to read your whole essay so you don't have to 💅 this is the Open Text Summarizer, and yes it's a command line tool, it lives in section 1 of the manual (iykyk), and it is so much smarter than your group chat's "tl;dr" 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ots [OPTIONS] [file.txt | stdin]

so it's literally ots, then some options, then either a file or you just pipe stuff into it and vibe. both work. slay ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The Open Text Summarizer is an open source tool for summarizing texts, no cap. The program reads a text and decides which sentences are important and which are not — like a really judgmental bestie but, like, in a helpful way 💖 OTS will create a short summary, or it will highlight the main ideas in the text. Both iconic. Both valid.

OTS is both a library and a command line tool, which is giving main character energy honestly 👑 Word processors such as AbiWord and KWord can link to the library and summarize documents, while the command line tool lets you summarize text on the console. The program can either print the summarized text as text or as HTML. If it's in HTML, the important sentences are highlighted. cute, right? ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -?, --help — show help options. bestie behavior fr fr 🫶
• -v, --version — show version information. who am i, what am i, etc. 🌈
• -r, --ratio=INT — summarization INT %. the default is 20% 🍓
• -o, --out=FILE — output FILE. the default is stdout, so if you don't say anything it just yells into your terminal 💀
• -a, --about — only output the summary. that's it, that's the whole thing.
• -h, --html — output as html. highlighted sentences, we love to see it ✨

🧚 EXAMPLES 🧚

Summarize the article from the Sacramento Bee and highlight the 20% of sentences most important to the content of the article:

$ ots --ratio 20 --html articles/sacbee1.txt

Print sentences most important of the article:

$ ots -a big_article.txt

👑 AUTHORS 👑

ots was written by Nadav Rotem <nadav256@hotmail.com>.

This manual page was written by Luis Paulo Linares <lpfllinares@gmail.com> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). so generous of them honestly 🫶

okay so that's the whole page 💖 go summarize something, bestie. you're gonna eat. periodt.

and that's a wrap on ots from the ots-1.0 era, dated 2020-07-10 — same page, same facts, but now with ✨personality✨ 😭🦋