Text Cleaner

Remove hidden characters, smart quotes, HTML, and messy spacing from copied text.

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Online Text Cleaner

Text copied from websites, Word documents, PDFs, and chat apps is full of hidden problems: invisible characters, curly quotes, non-breaking spaces, stray HTML, and messy spacing. Text Cleaner fixes all of them at once so you get plain, predictable text.

What gets cleaned

  • Invisible characters – zero-width spaces, BOMs, soft hyphens, and control characters.
  • Typography – smart quotes, en/em dashes, and ellipses become plain ASCII.
  • Whitespace – leading/trailing spaces, repeated spaces, and empty lines.
  • HTML (optional) – tags, scripts, and common entities.

Every step can be switched on or off, and the output updates instantly.

Why it matters

Hidden characters cause "identical" strings to fail comparisons, break CSV imports, add mysterious gaps in CMS editors, and make code fail with syntax errors. Cleaning text before pasting it into a database, spreadsheet, code editor, or CMS saves a lot of debugging time.

For single tasks, see Remove Empty Lines, Whitespace Remover, or Remove Punctuation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Characters such as zero-width spaces, zero-width joiners, byte order marks, soft hyphens, and non-breaking spaces that you can't see but that break searches, comparisons, and code. They often sneak in when copying from websites, Word, or chat apps.

It replaces typographic characters with plain ASCII equivalents: curly quotes become straight quotes, en and em dashes become hyphens, and the ellipsis character becomes three dots.

Yes. Enable 'Strip HTML tags' to remove tags, scripts, and styles and decode common entities like   and &. Block elements such as paragraphs and line breaks become new lines.