Text Cleaner

1. 1Paste your messy text.
2. 2Switch on the fixes you need; each one is independent.
3. 3Watch the preview update as you toggle them.
4. 4Copy the cleaned result.

Text copied from a PDF or an email arrives with problems that are invisible until they cause trouble. Non-breaking spaces look identical to ordinary spaces but break search and word wrap. Zero-width characters have no appearance at all yet corrupt string comparisons. Smart quotes and em dashes break code and some data imports.

Line breaks are the most common problem with PDF text. A PDF breaks lines to fit the page, not to end paragraphs, so pasted text arrives with a break after every visual line. The line-joining option merges those back into flowing paragraphs while keeping genuine paragraph breaks — it treats a blank line as a real break and a single break as an artefact.

HTML stripping removes tags and decodes entities, turning copied web markup back into plain text. It operates on the text as data and never renders it, so pasting hostile markup here cannot do anything.

Your text is processed by JavaScript running in this page and is never sent over the network. That matters when you are pasting a draft, a client brief, meeting notes or anything else you would rather not hand to a server.