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Last updated: September 2026 By using this site, you agree to the following. This is a free tool that summarizes article text you paste in, for personal, informal use — not a professional research or news service. Summaries are written automatically, and you can choose to have them translated into another language too. Sometimes a summary may miss a detail or misread a page. Précis only summarizes text you paste in; it doesn't fetch pages or get around paywalls. For anything important, read the original article. How well a summary turns out can depend on how the original page itself is built — some sites structure their content in ways that are genuinely harder to read cleanly than others, through no fault of this tool. We work continuously to handle as many of these cases as possible, but we can't guarantee a perfect result on every single site. We don't own or claim the articles you paste in. All rights remain with the original publishers or whoever holds the rights to what you provided. Please only paste text you have the right to read and use. All original content, code, design and branding on this service are owned by its operator. Copying, scraping or reselling them without written permission is prohibited. Third-party articles remain the property of their publishers. The service may be unavailable, slow, or fail to summarize a particular text or translate into a particular language from time to time. We make no guarantee of uptime, accuracy, or availability. Please don't use this tool to scrape, republish, or bulk-process content at a scale beyond normal personal reading. We respect publishers' rights: Précis doesn't fetch articles from their sites, and only summarizes text you choose to paste in. You must be at least 13 years old to use this service (16 if you're in the EU). We may update these terms from time to time. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept the current version — check back here occasionally if you want to stay up to date. We reserve the right to restrict or refuse access to anyone found using this tool in a way that breaches these terms, such as the scraping or bulk-processing use described above. These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.