The phrase "a summary of the documents" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a concise overview or recap of the contents of specific documents.
Example: "Before the meeting, please prepare a summary of the documents we discussed last week."
Alternatives: "an overview of the documents" or "a recap of the documents."
Table 4 provides a summary of the document corpora retrieved for this phase.
In essence, they were asked to rate the importance of a sentence in terms of selecting it if they were to write a summary of the document.
National documents reviewed included reports of IPV for the years 2005-2011 (see Additional file 1 for a summary of the main documents reviewed).
A summary of these documents is provided in the online supplementary material but their impact on either internal policy initiatives or GMC registration rates is unclear.
Mr. Levin's investigative staff released a summary of those documents, which are to be released in full on Tuesday.
Table 1 presents a summary of the number of documents collected (D), the word counts (W), and the sentence counts (S) for each organization and each period as well as summary statistics: sum of the counts and the words and sentences per document ratio averaged across the periods (i.e., μ(W/D) and μ(S/D)).
A summary of this document was published in one of Iran's few remaining independent journals.
The legal advice suggests that if Scotland becomes independent, it will be a "new state," while the "remainder of the United Kingdom" would be considered a "continuing state," according to a summary of the 57-page document that was released ahead of the full publication.
In August, the office of Attorney General Jerry Brown wrote a summary of the initiative, a document that voters depend on for unbiased analysis.
Finally (here, there are many more charts in the document), a summary of the impact on GDP of improvements in domestic consumption and business investment using the money saved from lower fuel prices, as modelled by the Treasury: Source: HM Treasury, Analysis of the dynamic effects of fuel duty reductions, 2014.
