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Text Cleaner

Clean messy pasted text: fix spacing, quotes, invisible characters and more.

  • Free
  • Real-time
  • Runs locally
Cleans as you type
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Cleanup rules

Characters
Typography
Remove content
Spacing & lines

Fixes

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Characters

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Characters

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What changed

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Text copied from PDFs, web pages, Word documents or chat apps often carries hidden junk: zero-width characters, odd spaces, curly quotes, stray bullets and piles of empty lines. Paste it here and get clean, plain text back in one step.

The essential fixes are switched on by default, and you can add more with a click: straighten quotes and dashes for code or CSV files, strip emoji, links or email addresses, or remove list markers. A summary shows exactly what was changed. Everything happens in your browser.

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How to clean text

  1. STEP 01

    Paste your text

    Paste the messy text into the box. The cleaned version appears below immediately.

  2. STEP 02

    Choose cleanup rules

    Keep the defaults or turn on extra rules for typography, content and layout.

  3. STEP 03

    Copy the clean text

    Check the What changed list, then copy or download the result.

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Features

  • Invisible characters removed

    Zero-width spaces, soft hyphens, byte order marks and control characters are deleted; emoji stay intact.

  • Spacing and empty lines

    Collapse repeated spaces and tabs, trim line ends and limit empty lines between paragraphs.

  • Plain typography

    Optionally convert curly quotes, en and em dashes and ellipsis characters to plain keyboard characters.

  • Strip unwanted content

    Remove emoji, links, email addresses or bullet and number markers at the start of lines.

  • Unicode normalization

    Accented letters made of two characters are combined, so search and comparisons work as expected.

  • Change report

    See how many fixes each rule made, and the character count before and after.

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When to use the text cleaner

Typical situations where cleaning helps:

  • Pasting from a PDF or website into a CMS, spreadsheet or form that shows strange spacing or symbols.
  • Preparing text for code, CSV or JSON, where curly quotes and invisible characters cause errors.
  • Removing emoji, links or contact details before sharing or analyzing text.
  • Turning a bulleted or numbered list into plain lines.
  • Fixing text that looks identical to another but does not match in a search or formula.
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Frequently asked questions

What does the text cleaner do by default?

It normalizes Unicode, removes invisible characters, fixes spacing, collapses runs of empty lines into one, and converts line endings to the standard LF format. Other rules are optional.

Will it remove my emoji?

Only if you turn on “Remove emoji”. Removing invisible characters keeps the hidden joiners that combined emoji need, so they are not broken.

Why straighten quotes?

Word processors replace " and ' with curly quotes. Those look nicer but break code, CSV files and search. Straightening converts them back to plain characters.

What is Unicode normalization?

Some accented letters can be stored as one character or as a letter plus a separate accent. Normalizing makes them all use the single-character form, so identical-looking words really are identical.

How is this different from Remove Extra Spaces?

Remove Extra Spaces focuses only on whitespace with fine-grained control. The Text Cleaner combines several kinds of cleanup, including characters, typography and content, in one pass.

Is my text uploaded?

No. All cleanup runs in your browser and nothing is sent to a server.

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