Text Cleaner
How to use
Cleans up messy text by collapsing extra whitespace, stripping HTML tags, and normalizing line endings, pick which fixes to apply. Paste your text and copy the cleaned result.
Source Text
Cleaned Text
- Stripping HTML tags and stray formatting from text copied off a webpage before pasting into an email
- Normalizing smart quotes and em dashes from a Word document before pasting into plain-text code or config
- Collapsing excess whitespace and blank lines from text extracted out of a PDF
- Preparing scraped content for a CMS field that expects clean plain text
Free and private. Everything runs on your own device, with no account and no uploads.
Text copied from a PDF, an email, or a web page often arrives full of extra spaces, stray HTML tags, smart quotes and other encoding artifacts. This cleaner strips extra whitespace, removes HTML tags, normalizes special characters and fixes common encoding glitches in one pass, giving writers and developers plain, usable text without manual find-and-replace work.
Yes, when HTML tag removal is enabled it strips tags like <div> or <span> while keeping the visible text content.
It can normalize common typographic characters like smart quotes and em dashes to their plain ASCII equivalents.
Yes, whitespace cleanup collapses repeated spaces and can also reduce multiple consecutive blank lines.
No, it is meant for cleaning readable text, not for sanitizing HTML for security purposes, do not rely on it to prevent XSS.
No, all cleaning rules run locally in JavaScript in your browser.
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Paste the messy text
Add the text that has extra spaces, tags or odd characters.
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Select cleanup options
Toggle which fixes to apply, such as removing HTML tags or collapsing whitespace.
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Clean the text
Run the cleanup to produce a tidied version.
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Copy the result
Copy the cleaned text for use in your document or CMS.
- ·Enable only the cleanup options you need, stripping HTML on already-plain text is harmless but unnecessary.
- ·Do not rely on this for security-sensitive HTML sanitization; it is built for readability, not preventing XSS.
- ·Run text through here before a word counter or diff tool if hidden characters are throwing off your results.