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Text Cleaner

Remove extra spaces, blank lines, HTML tags and hidden characters.

Text copied from Word, PDFs, emails or web pages often arrives with double spaces, stray blank lines, hidden characters and HTML.

About Text Cleaner

Clean up messy text pasted from Word, PDFs, emails or websites. Remove extra spaces and blank lines, trim each line, join lines into one paragraph, strip HTML tags, straighten smart quotes and dashes, and delete zero-width characters or emoji.

Text copied from Word, PDFs, emails or web pages often arrives with double spaces, stray blank lines, hidden characters and HTML. This text cleaner removes that clutter with a few ticks, so the text is ready to paste anywhere.

How to use Text Cleaner

  1. Paste your messy text.
  2. Tick the clean-up options you want.
  3. Copy or download the clean result.

Key features

  • Remove extra spaces, trim lines and collapse blank lines.
  • Join lines into a single paragraph.
  • Strip HTML tags, straighten smart quotes and dashes.
  • Remove zero-width characters and emoji.

Common use cases

  • Fixing text copied from PDFs with broken line breaks.
  • Preparing text for forms, spreadsheets and CMS editors.
  • Removing invisible characters that break searches and code.

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