There's a little known and lesser used feature built into Apple Safari that has become both the jewel to reporters everywhere and also the bane to administrators of educational facilities - "Summarize".

This built-in feature allows quick summaries of a selected block of text in Safari and greatly reduces processing time for reporters but at the same time, presents a nightmare in trying to prevent plagiarism among educators.

Diagram 1.0, Highlight a block of text

Its simple. Surf to a site filled with text that you might want to summarise. Then highlight the entire block of text that you want summarised (Diagram 1.0).

Diagram 1.1, Activate the Summarize function within the Safari Servicesmenu

Activate the Summarize function within the Safari Services menu (Diagram 1.1). You will then be presented with a Summary window containing the block of text you have highlighted on the web page (Diagram 1.2).

Diagram 1.2, Safari transposes the highlighted text into the Summarize window

The text can be summarised based on sentences (Diagram 1.3) or paragraphs. Dragging the "Summarize Size" bar from right to left determines the level of summary. A comparison between Diagram 1.3 and 1.4 evidences how summarising by Sentences or Paragraphs produces different results.

Diagram 1.3, Summarising by Sentences

Diagram 1.4, Summarising by Paragraphs