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NAME

ots - a tool for summarizing texts

SYNOPSIS

ots [options] [to-summarize.txt | stdin]

DESCRIPTION

The open text summarizer is an open source tool for summa

rizing texts. The program reads a text and decides which sen

tences are important and which are not. OTS will create a short

summary or will highlight the main ideas in the text. OTS is both

a library and a command line tool. Word processors such as Abi

Word and KWord can link to the library and summarize documents

while the command line tool lets you summarize text on the con

sole.

OPTIONS

-r --ratio [0%..100%]

Select the summary ratio

-d --dic lang

Use alternate dictionary file specified by a ISO

639 language code, for example 'he', 'de', 'fr', 'es'

-o --out file

Redirect output results to file instead of stdout

-h --html

Print summary in highlighted html form

-k --keywords

Print key words in the article

-a --about

Print a short description of what the article is

about

-v --version

Display what version of ots this is

-? --help

Display this help screen

--usage

Display brief usage message

MORE INFORMATION

http://libots.sf.net/

AUTHORS

Nadav Rotem (nadav256@hotmail.com), Dom Lachowicz

(cinamod@hotmail.com), Mark Gilbert

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