Abstract
A surveillance system with a function of automatically generating text summaries and a text summary generation method are provided. The surveillance system includes a portable electronic device, an image capturing device, a computing device and a signal transmission device. The image capturing device captures an image of a surveillance area. When an intelligent application image recognition program in the computing device is read and executed, the captured image of the surveillance area is processed into the corresponding text summary. In addition, the text summary is transmitted to the portable electronic device through the signal transmission device.