Private Summaries, without uploading a thing
Extractive summaries built from the document's own sentences — zero hallucination, fully offline.
As a confidentiality-bound professional, you understand the importance of protecting sensitive information. You've likely worked with cloud-based AI tools that promise to deliver concise and accurate summaries of your documents. However, these services often come with a steep price: by uploading your original text, they're taking on the risk of breaching confidentiality or even fabricating details that were never present in the first place. This can be particularly problematic for professionals who handle highly sensitive or proprietary information.
The problem is simple: cloud AI summarizers are fluent and effective, but their reliance on remote processing means that your data is being transmitted and potentially exposed to unauthorized parties. But what if you could have a private PDF summarizer that analyzes your documents 100% on-device? Secretary Bird, a cutting-edge browser extension, makes this possible. With its free core and one-time Pro license ($29), you can enjoy extractive summaries that select the document's most important real sentences, in order – and even receive plain-English summaries that are generated directly on your machine, without ever leaving it.
How Private Summaries works
When you use Secretary Bird's extractive summary feature, we analyze your documents 100% on-device, without transmitting any information to our servers. This means that all processing happens locally on your device, ensuring maximum control over your data. Our proprietary algorithm identifies key phrases and sentences from the original text, creating a concise summary that accurately captures the main points.
For those who require more in-depth analysis, Secretary Bird's Pro feature offers abstractive summarization capabilities via on-device AI. This advanced technology analyzes the document, extracting insights and relationships that go beyond simple keyword extraction. You'll receive an abstractive summary, linked to the original source passage, allowing you to delve deeper into specific topics or ideas. Additionally, our Pro feature enables Ask-the-Document Q&A, which lets you ask targeted questions about the text, receiving deterministic answers that are grounded in the actual content, never relying on hallucinations or external knowledge graphs.
The test that matters: open your browser's network inspector while it analyzes a document. If any request carries document content, it isn't on-device. Architectural privacy is verifiable; policy privacy is not.
How to use it
- Load a document
- Read the extractive summary instantly
- Click a summary line to see it in context
- Turn on AI summary for plain-English output (Pro)
How it compares
ChatGPT reasons more deeply and writes more fluently on public material. Where Secretary Bird differs is the architecture: for documents you're not allowed to upload. The document is never uploaded, so using it doesn't hand your client's data to a third party.
| Feature | ChatGPT / cloud AI | Secretary Bird |
|---|---|---|
| Document stays on your device | — | ✓ |
| Usable for confidential/client data | only with vetted enterprise terms | ✓ |
| Deterministic, no-hallucination extraction | — | ✓ |
| Every finding links to source | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Deep reasoning / fluency on public text | ✓ | mid |
| Price | $20/mo | $29 once |
Try it on your next document
Live in the Chrome Web Store. Free core, no account, nothing uploaded. Pro is $29 one-time — one-time license, no subscription.
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Secretary Bird is a triage and extraction assistant, not legal advice — you make the call. Built by hakeemify.