What is a text cleaner?
A text cleaner turns messy pasted content into cleaner plain text. It can strip HTML tags, decode entities, remove hidden characters, trim lines, collapse extra spaces, remove blank lines, and optionally remove emoji, punctuation, or numbers. Processing stays in your browser.
How to use the text cleaner
- Paste messy text: Add copied web content, exported data, CMS copy, or text with hidden characters.
- Choose cleanup options: Keep the default safe cleanup or turn on emoji, punctuation, number, or Unicode normalization filters.
- Copy clean text: Use the output in docs, spreadsheets, CMS fields, code comments, or forms.
Why use this text cleaner?
- Fix messy pastes: Remove HTML fragments,
, invisible spaces, and extra blank lines. - Prepare data: Normalize spacing before spreadsheet imports, keyword cleanup, or text analysis.
- Stay local: Clean sensitive drafts or operational data without uploading it.
Use case 1: CMS publishing
Clean copy pasted from web pages or documents before adding it to a CMS field.
Use case 2: Spreadsheet prep
Remove extra spaces, blank lines, and invisible characters before importing lists into sheets. If the data is a Markdown table, for example from a ChatGPT answer, the Markdown to CSV converter turns it into a file your spreadsheet can open.
Use case 3: QA and debugging
Strip zero-width characters that make text look right but break validation, matching, or search.
Examples
Basic example
Input: <p> Hello world! </p>
Output: Hello world!
Filter example
Input: Product Name 123 -- ready!!!
Output with punctuation and numbers removed: Product Name ready
Common errors
Useful characters were removed
Turn off destructive options such as emoji, punctuation, numbers, or ASCII fallback when you need to preserve those characters.
Line breaks changed
The cleaner preserves line breaks by default but removes empty lines. Turn off "Remove empty lines" when blank lines carry meaning.
Tips and proven approaches
- Use the default cleanup first, then add stronger filters only when needed.
Related tools
- Make targeted swaps with the find and replace tool, including regex and multi-rule chains.
- Strip formatting with the remove text formatting tool.
- Turn cells copied from a spreadsheet into a Markdown table with Convert Table to Markdown.
- Indent messy HTML markup with the HTML indent code tool.
- Fix text that is in all capitals with the all caps to sentence case converter.
Privacy and security
Text cleaning happens locally in your browser. Your pasted content is not uploaded, logged, or stored.