Text Cleaner

The Text Cleaner is a free online tool that comprehensive text cleaner with 18+ toggles: strip html, urls, emails, phones, punctuation, numbers, non-ascii, zero-width chars, smart quotes. includes unicode normalization.. It runs entirely in your browser with no installation or sign-up needed.

Whitespace Remover handles only spaces/tabs/line breaks. Text Cleaner also strips HTML, URLs, emails, phone numbers, punctuation, numbers, non-ASCII chars, zero-width chars, and BOM, plus Unicode normalization.

NFC produces canonical composed form. NFD decomposes to base + combining marks. NFKC/NFKD add compatibility mappings (full-width digits, ligatures). Use NFC for most copy-paste cleanup, NFKC for search/indexing.

No — cleaning runs entirely in your browser. Text never leaves your device.

Yes, the Text Cleaner is 100% free with no registration, no hidden fees, and no usage limits. All processing happens locally in your browser, ensuring complete privacy.

Absolutely. The Text Cleaner processes everything client-side in your browser. No data is uploaded to or stored on any server. Your content remains private on your device at all times.

Yes, the Text Cleaner is fully responsive and works on smartphones and tablets. You can use it on any device with a modern web browser -- no app download required.

No account or registration is needed. Simply open the Text Cleaner in your browser and start using it immediately. There are no sign-up walls or usage restrictions.

Yes, the Text Cleaner handles text of any length with fast, real-time processing. Since everything runs in your browser, performance depends on your device but works well for most use cases.

Simply enter your input in the provided field, adjust any settings to your preference, and the tool will process it instantly. You can then copy the result to your clipboard or download it.

Zero-width characters are invisible Unicode code points that take up no visual space but still exist in your text: the zero-width space (ZWSP), zero-width non-joiner (ZWNJ), zero-width joiner (ZWJ), and word joiner. They sneak in when you copy from web pages, PDFs, or messaging apps, and because you can't see them, they cause baffling bugs. A zero-width space hidden inside a keyword breaks search matches, a slug, or a password check; the same character can split a word so spell-check and find-and-replace silently fail. They also inflate byte counts and sometimes get used to fingerprint copied text. The Text Cleaner has a dedicated toggle that strips all four of these invisible characters in one pass, so paste your text, enable zero-width removal, and copy back text that contains only the characters you can actually see.

Curly or "smart" quotes (“ ” ‘ ’) are typographic characters that word processors, CMS editors, and chat apps auto-insert in place of plain straight quotes. They look nicer in prose but are different Unicode characters from the straight quotes (" and ') that programming languages and data formats expect. JSON parsers, JavaScript strings, SQL queries, and shell commands only recognize straight quotes, so pasting code or a config snippet that picked up curly quotes throws syntax errors that are hard to spot because the difference is so subtle. The same applies to em dashes and ellipsis characters that replace plain hyphens and three dots. The Text Cleaner's smart-quote toggle converts every curly quote back to its straight equivalent and flattens fancy dashes, so paste your snippet, enable that option, and copy code that parses cleanly.

A BOM, or byte order mark, is an invisible character (U+FEFF) some editors add to the very start of a UTF-8 file to flag its encoding. It usually does no harm, but it causes real problems in specific cases: a BOM at the top of a CSV can corrupt the first column header so imports fail or show a stray  character, and it can break JSON parsing, shell scripts, or code files that expect the content to begin immediately. Because the BOM is invisible, these errors are maddening to diagnose. The Text Cleaner removes the BOM as the very first step of its cleaning pass, before any other operation runs, so nothing else gets thrown off. Paste your text or file contents, enable BOM removal, and copy back content that starts exactly where you expect it to.

These are two related but separate jobs. Removing HTML tags deletes the angle-bracket markup itself — things like <p>, <a href>, <span>, and <div> — so only the readable text between them remains. Decoding HTML entities handles the encoded stand-ins for special characters, turning &amp; back into &, &nbsp; into a normal space, &lt; into <, and so on, so the words read correctly instead of showing raw codes. When you paste content scraped from a web page you usually want both: strip the tags to get plain prose, and decode entities so ampersands and spaces look right. The Text Cleaner's strip-HTML toggle does both together in a single step. Paste your web-copied text, enable strip HTML, and copy back clean, readable prose with no leftover markup or entity codes.

The Text Cleaner offers four one-click presets so you don't have to set toggles by hand. Plain Text gives the lightest touch, fixing basic whitespace and obvious noise. Clean for Copy-Paste is the everyday choice: it straightens smart quotes, removes zero-width characters and the BOM, collapses extra spaces, and converts tabs — ideal for flattening Word or Google Docs paste before publishing. Aggressive Clean goes furthest, additionally stripping HTML, URLs, emails, phone numbers, and other structural noise for when you need bare text. Only Whitespace touches nothing but spacing, trimming and collapsing blank lines while leaving every character intact. Each preset is a starting point you can fine-tune by flipping individual toggles afterward, and the stat bar shows characters removed and bytes saved. Paste your text, click the preset that matches your goal, then adjust and copy the result.