Paragraph shortener
Tight paragraphs, nothing specific lost
Set a target and paste your paragraphs. The paragraph shortener removes sentences that repeat each other, tightens the rest and keeps each paragraph in its place, with every number, name and deadline checked.
6 free pages a month. No card.
Made for
- Cover letters and application answers with a limit
- Product descriptions and bios
- Report sections that grew too long
Before and after
Example: 64 → 41 words · every fact kept
Original
Maria Lopez is a highly experienced and passionate data scientist with a strong background in machine learning. She has worked in the field of data science for over 9 years. During her career, she has led a team of 12 analysts at Contoso, where she built the company’s first fraud model. The fraud model she built reduced chargebacks by 18% in its first year.
Result
Maria Lopez is a data scientist with over 9 years in the field and a background in machine learning.
At Contoso she led 12 analysts and built the company’s first fraud model, which cut chargebacks by 18% in its first year.
- Kept: over 9 years
- Kept: 12 analysts
- Kept: Contoso
- Kept: 18%
How Shorten works
Step 01
Empty sentences go first
Sentences that repeat what the passage already says are cut without a rewrite.
Step 02
Each passage gets a target
Your length applies to every passage, so nothing is squeezed to make room for another.
Step 03
The rest is tightened
Repetition, padding and wordy phrasing go; sentences that share a subject merge.
Step 04
Facts are checked
If the target and the facts conflict, the facts win and the passage comes as close as they allow.
Options
- Target length
- Keep 20% to 90% of the original. Default 50%.
- Write in
- Keep the language, or translate while shortening.
From code, terminal or agent
# REST API
curl https://readable.md/api/v1/transform \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $READABLE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "tool": "shorten", "text": "…", "length": 0.4 }'
# Command line
readable shorten report.md --length 0.4 --out short.md
# MCP tool: shortenQuestions
- Does it cut whole sentences?
- Yes, when a sentence only repeats what the paragraph already says. A sentence with a number, a name or a decision is tightened, not removed.
- Will my paragraphs merge?
- No. Each paragraph keeps its place, so the result drops back into your document.
- Which languages does it support?
- Every language. Length is counted in words for any script, and facts are checked the same way.
