About the Text Cleaner
Paste text copied from web pages, PDFs or word processors and get clean plain text. Choose exactly which clean-ups to apply.
Text Cleaner
Strip HTML, straighten curly quotes, remove invisible characters, extra spaces and empty lines.
- Type or paste your text
- Choose what to do
- Copy the result
Runs in your browser. Your data and files never leave your device.
Frequently asked questions
What are invisible characters?
Zero-width spaces, soft hyphens and non-breaking spaces that often come along when you copy text and cause odd spacing or search problems.
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