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What is it?

Open Text Summarizer (AKA, OTS, libots) is a tool for summarizing texts, providing a more easily digestible 'synopsis' of it.

Why put it in Okular?


Okular is designed for documents that are often used to distribute technical journals, on-line magazines, etc. It is also capable of 'reading' text in an image not entirely dissimilar to Optical Character Recognition (OCR) found in a good number of scanners. Both the content and Okular's own 'OCR' make it a perfect program on it's own, which could be further enhanced by the inclusion to create a automatic summarization.


Is it found in any other applications?

Yes, Abiword. A GUI was also produced for GNOME.

If it's in those programs, why should we put it in?

There is currently no PDF reader with both the ability to pull text out of an image and Text Summarization, it would make an excellent feature...it would certinatly make my life (which is full of these on-line journals) a LOT easier!

Anything else I should know?

The amount of summarization is configurable.


Alright, I'm interested, any links?
Of course;

http://libots.sourceforge.net/

Just a note:

Dante Ashton wrote:Both the content and Okular's own 'OCR' [...]

Okular has no own OCR stuff. All the text information available comes directly from the documents.

pinotree wrote:Just a note:

Dante Ashton wrote:Both the content and Okular's own 'OCR' [...]

Okular has no own OCR stuff. All the text information available comes directly from the documents.

Then we have to add new idea about ORC...

Ha, seems I got ahead of myself....well, it seems capable of selecting text and copying it to the clipboard, whatever it's method. My OTS intergration idea still stands, though.

Whatddya say?