What Is the Text Cleaner?
The Text Cleaner removes unwanted formatting, invisible characters, extra spaces, and encoding artifacts from pasted text. Paste text copied from a web page, PDF, Word document, or email and remove: invisible Unicode characters (zero-width spaces, Hangul fillers), double spaces, leading/trailing whitespace, smart/curly quotes → straight quotes, em dashes → hyphens, and line break characters. The output is clean, portable text.
How to Use It
Type or paste your text in the input field above. The result appears instantly. Click Copy to add it to your clipboard. No sign-up, no limits — free to use as many times as needed.
Common Uses
Cleaning pasted web content before using in documents or code. Removing invisible characters from text copied from web pages. Normalizing quotes and dashes for code or database entry. Stripping formatting artifacts before NLP/AI text processing. Removing copyright-tracking invisible characters.
Why Text Gets Dirty
Text copied from web pages, PDFs, and Word documents often carries invisible formatting. Web pages embed zero-width spaces for typography control and zero-width joiners for emoji composition. Word processors use "smart quotes" (curly " ") and em dashes (—) instead of straight quotes and hyphens. PDFs sometimes embed soft hyphens () that appear in copied text. The Text Cleaner strips all these artifacts in one pass.