Text Cleaner
Paste any text, tick the cleanups you need, and copy the result — everything runs locally in your browser.
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Paste some text above to see what gets cleaned.
All cleaning happens locally in your browser — your text is never uploaded.
How it works
- Paste or type your text into the input box at the top.
- Tick the cleanup options you need — trim lines, collapse spaces, remove punctuation, strip emoji, and more.
- Check the live output and the summary of what was removed, then copy the cleaned text or download it as a .txt file.
Frequently asked questions
- How does the text cleaner work?
- Each cleanup you tick is applied as a separate rule in a fixed, predictable order — character replacements first, then whitespace fixes. The output updates live as you type or change options, and a summary tells you exactly how many characters each rule removed or changed.
- Is my text uploaded to a server?
- No. The entire tool runs in your browser using JavaScript, so nothing you paste ever leaves your device. That makes it safe for private notes, customer data, or unpublished drafts, and it also means the cleaning is instant with no upload wait.
- What does the remove accents option do?
- It converts accented letters to their plain ASCII equivalents, so é becomes e, ñ becomes n, and ü becomes u. Technically the text is decomposed with Unicode normalization and the combining accent marks are stripped, which is the standard way to transliterate Latin-based text for filenames, slugs, or legacy systems.
- Can it remove emoji and other special characters?
- Yes. The emoji and non-ASCII option deletes every character outside the basic ASCII range, which covers emoji, symbols, and invisible characters like zero-width spaces that often sneak in from web pages. If you only want to fix curly quotes rather than delete them, use the straighten smart quotes option instead.
- What is the difference between collapsing spaces and removing all spaces?
- Collapse multiple spaces replaces runs of two or more spaces or tabs with a single space, which fixes double-spaced text while keeping words readable. Remove all spaces deletes every space and tab entirely, which is useful for compacting codes, hashes, or serial numbers copied with stray spacing.
About this tool
Text Cleaner is a free, all-in-one cleanup tool for text you have copied from PDFs, web pages, spreadsheets, emails, or chat apps. Pasted text often arrives with trailing spaces, doubled spacing, blank lines, curly quotes, stray emoji, and invisible Unicode characters. Instead of fixing these by hand or juggling several single-purpose tools, you tick the exact cleanups you want and get the corrected text immediately.
Everything happens locally in your browser — no account, no upload, no server ever sees your text. Each rule is a small, well-defined transformation: line trimming strips whitespace from the start and end of every line, space collapsing merges runs of spaces and tabs, accent removal uses Unicode NFD normalization to turn é into e, and the non-ASCII filter drops emoji and hidden control characters. The rules run in a fixed order so results are always predictable, and a change summary reports exactly how many characters each rule affected, along with before and after character, word, and line counts.
Typical uses include preparing text for CSV or database import, cleaning copy pasted from a PDF where every line ends with hard-wrapped spaces, normalizing product names or usernames to plain ASCII, stripping numbers and punctuation before running word-frequency analysis, and converting typographic quotes back to straight quotes so code snippets compile. Writers use it to tidy interview transcripts; developers use it to sanitize test fixtures and log excerpts.
A practical tip: apply the least destructive options first and check the live output before enabling aggressive ones like remove all spaces or remove punctuation, since those cannot distinguish meaningful characters from noise. The before and after counts make it easy to confirm nothing important disappeared, and the download button saves the result as a UTF-8 .txt file when you need more than a quick copy.