Text Cleaner

Turn messy copied text into clean plain text by removing HTML, smart quotes, emojis, hidden characters and more.

FreeNo sign-upRuns in your browserMobile-friendly

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What does the Text Cleaner do?

Text copied from web pages, Word documents and PDFs often carries hidden baggage: HTML tags, entities like  , curly quotes that break code, zero-width characters that make searches fail, and odd line breaks. Choose exactly which clean-up steps to apply.

The “strip HTML” option removes scripts and styles completely and converts paragraph and line-break tags into real line breaks, so structure is kept.

How to use the Text Cleaner

  1. Paste the messy text.
  2. Tick the clean-up options you need.
  3. Review the result and copy or download it.

Examples

From a web page

<p>Tom&amp;Jerry</p> → “Tom&Jerry”.

For code

“Smart quotes” and em dashes → plain ASCII quotes and hyphens, so pasted code runs.

Common use cases

  • Cleaning text copied from websites and PDFs
  • Preparing text for code, CSV or databases
  • Removing tracking links and emails from text
  • Making plain-text versions of emails

Features and benefits

  • Private by design — your data is processed on your device and never uploaded.
  • Free with no account, no watermark and no usage limits.
  • Works on phones, tablets and desktops in any modern browser.

Limitations to know

  • “Remove all non-ASCII” also removes Urdu, accented letters and emojis — use it only for strictly English/ASCII data.

Frequently asked questions

What are invisible characters?

Characters such as zero-width spaces and soft hyphens that do not show on screen but can break searches, passwords and code.

Does stripping HTML keep line breaks?

Yes. Paragraph, div, list and
tags become line breaks.

Is it safe to paste HTML?

Yes. The HTML is treated as text and is never run.

Embed this tool on your website

Add the free Text Cleaner to your blog or website. Paste the code into your page’s HTML; the tool runs in your visitors’ browsers and stays up to date automatically. Please keep the credit line below the tool.

Free to use on any website. The tool runs inside an iframe served from viptools.pk; nothing your visitors type is sent to your site or ours. Preview the embedded version.

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