# Summarize Documents
### Summary
Learn how to **Summarize Documents** with Vincent. Our **AI document summary** tool can quickly generate concise and accurate summaries of one or more legal documents, allowing you to grasp the key points in a fraction of the time.
### Why This is Important
Legal professionals are constantly faced with long, dense documents. The Summarize Documents workflow is a powerful productivity tool that automates the process of creating a summary. This allows you to rapidly understand the essence of a document, determine its relevance, and extract the most critical information without having to read every word.
### Step-by-Step Guide
#### Step 1: Start the Workflow and Upload Your Documents
To begin, select **Summarize Documents** from the list of workflows on the Vincent landing page. You can then upload one or more documents that you wish to summarize.
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Seleccione 'Resumir Documentos' y cargue su(s) archivo(s).
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**Supported File Formats:** Vincent supports a wide range of file formats, including common document types (**Word, PDF, TXT**), emails (**EML, MSG**), spreadsheets (**XLSX, CSV**), presentations (**PPTX**), and more.
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#### Step 2: Review the Generated Summary
Once your documents are uploaded, Vincent will read them and automatically generate a summary. If you upload multiple documents, Vincent will provide:
* A separate summary for **each individual document**.
* An **overview summary** at the bottom of the page that synthesizes the key points from all the documents combined.
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Vincent proporciona un resumen por documento y un resumen final general.
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**Our "Trust but Verify" Philosophy in Action**
Vincent is engineered to provide answers you can depend on. Our **Enhanced References** feature is designed to make verification fast and simple.
* **Hover to Preview:** As you read, hover your mouse over any **blue highlighted text** or reference icon. A **Source Popover** will appear, showing you the exact quote from the source document and the page number.
* **Click to Deep-Dive:** Click the icon to open the source document directly in the **Document Viewer** side-by-side with your conversation. Vincent will automatically scroll to and highlight the exact referenced text.
* **Works Across All Your Files:** This powerful verification system works seamlessly across a wide range of formats, including **Word, PDF, and text documents**, **emails (EML, MSG)**, and even **transcripts generated from audio (MP3) and video (MP4, MKV) files**.
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#### Step 3: Interact with and Export Your Summary
After the initial summary is generated, you can continue your analysis.
* **Run Follow-Up Workflows:** Vincent will suggest other relevant workflows you can run on the same documents.
* **Ask for a Different Summary:** Use the chat box at the bottom to ask for a more specific summary (e.g., *"Summarize the key arguments in this document into one paragraph"*).
* **Copy Results:** Use the **copy icon** at the top right of any summary to copy the text for use in your work product.
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Continúe su análisis o copie el resumen.
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### Best Practices & Pro Tips
* **Summarize Multiple Documents:** This workflow is especially powerful when you upload multiple related documents at once. The overview summary is a great way to quickly understand the collective theme of a set of files.
* **Refine Your Summary:** Don't hesitate to use the chat box to ask for a different kind of summary. You can ask for a shorter version, a longer version, or a summary focused on a specific aspect of the document.
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### Related Articles
* [Explore a Legal Proposition](/vincent-by-vlex/vincent/core-workflows/explore-a-legal-proposition.md)
* [Managing Supported Languages](/vincent-by-vlex/vincent/getting-started-with-vincent/managing-supported-languages.md)
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