Text Cleaner & Formatter
Remove extra spaces, blank lines, hidden characters, HTML tags and more from pasted text with switchable cleaning rules.
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Runs entirely in your browser. Your files and text are never uploaded to our server.
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Text Cleaner tidies text copied from PDFs, websites, emails and chat apps. Switch on the rules you need, such as trimming lines, collapsing repeated spaces, removing blank lines, joining broken lines and removing invisible characters, and the cleaned text updates as you go.
You can also strip HTML tags, straighten smart quotes and dashes, remove emoji, numbers or punctuation, or list any characters you want removed. To find hidden characters one by one, use the Invisible Character Detector.
More about Text Cleaner & FormatterHow to use, good to know & FAQ
How to use Text Cleaner
- Paste your text into the top box.
- Tick the cleaning rules you want. Safe defaults are already on.
- Optionally type extra characters to remove.
- Copy or download the cleaned text, or click “Use result as input” to clean it again.
Good to know
- “Join broken lines into paragraphs” fixes text copied from PDFs, where every line ends with a break. Empty lines between paragraphs are kept.
- “Remove all non-ASCII characters” also removes letters such as é, ü, Urdu and Arabic. Use it only for plain-English text.
- The character count before and after shows how much was removed.
- Everything runs in your browser. Your text is not uploaded.
Frequently asked questions
How do I remove line breaks but keep paragraphs?
Turn on “Join broken lines into paragraphs”. Single line breaks become spaces, and blank lines between paragraphs stay.
Will it change my words?
No. The rules only change spacing, line breaks and the characters you choose to remove. Letters and words are not rewritten.
What are invisible characters?
Characters like zero-width spaces and byte-order marks that you cannot see but that can break code, searches, word counts and form validation.
Can I undo a change?
Your original text stays in the top box. Untick a rule to see the result without it.
When to use Text Cleaner
Use it before pasting text into a document, CMS, spreadsheet or code, and whenever copied text has odd spacing, broken lines or stray symbols.