Cleanup
Text Cleaner
Pages, PDFs, and email often hide extra characters in text that looks ordinary. Text Cleaner normalizes Unicode, strips zero-width characters and control codes, straightens quotes, and tidies spaces. Turn off any step you do not want.
This draft stays in the tab. Opening a file reads it here and does not upload it.
Cleaned text
0 characters removed.
How to use it
- Paste the text that looks fine but behaves oddly in a form, or open it as a file. The file is not uploaded.
- Leave the default steps on, or turn off quote straightening if you want curly quotes.
- Copy the cleaned text. The editor still holds the original.
Example
Hello world!! “Quoted” text — really…
The zero-width space disappears, the double exclamation becomes one, curly quotes become straight quotes, and the extra blank lines collapse.
Questions
What is a zero-width character?
It is a character that takes no visible space, such as a zero-width space or a byte-order mark. It can still break a search or a form. This tool removes those characters when that step is on.
Will this translate the text?
No. It does not paraphrase, and it does not send the text to a server.
Why offer switches for each step?
Straight quotes are useful in code and often wrong for published prose. Removing every empty line helps a messy paste and hurts poetry. Turn a step off, or turn on Remove empty lines, to match the draft.