September 20th, 2010
Emails contains only standard summary
Are you reading Topicmarks summaries in your email? Then you may be missing out on some advanced features. The summary in your email is just a starting point; click on the link and you can customize the summary in any way you like.
Use the website to change length and perspective
The link from the email brings you the same summary on your Topicmarks Document Dashboard:
- Use the slider to shorten or lengthen the summary to anywhere between 3 and 50 sentences.
- Click on any sentence to see it in its original context, for example if you want to check if an author really meant that sentence seriously.
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Enter any word in the search box to generate a summary with a particular perspective on your search term.
Dynamic overview of most important sentences
Reviewing summaries in your email is fine when you just want to get a quick overview. But for deeper understanding, play around with the slider and the search box; it’s like hearing views on the same text from a large number of people.
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September 2nd, 2010
Jijin from China found that Topicmarks produces better summaries than any of his classmates.
“I was very happy to receive this summary. My teacher tells me that among all the students, my summary is the best one.”
It is great to see that Topicmarks is helping so many students in the classroom. If even teachers grade Topicmarks summaries better, why would anyone still bother to skim a document without it?
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August 20th, 2010
Sometimes Topicmarks cannot read the file you tried to upload, and therefore cannot process it. The error message will tell you what is wrong with your document, e.g.
Name: myfilename.pdf
URL: file://myfilename.pdf
Processing error: Resource contains no text available for processing.
This error, typically occurring with PDF files, means that the PDF only contains images of text, not computer-readable text.
The solution is to have it “recognise” the text first with OCR (optical character recognition), by using any OCR software or by uploading it to web-based solutions like Evernote.
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