Remove junk, fix spacing, strip formatting — clean any text instantly.
The Text Cleaner removes extra spaces, fixes line breaks, strips formatting, removes special characters and cleans up messy text copied from PDFs, Word documents or websites. Paste your text and get clean output in one click.
Paste your messy text into the input box. Tick the cleanup options you want: strip HTML tags, remove URLs, drop emoji, drop numbers, remove punctuation, collapse repeated spaces, normalise blank lines. Click Clean. The output box shows the cleaned version, ready to copy. The "characters saved" count below tells you how much noise was removed. You can stack multiple options in any combination — for example, "strip HTML + collapse spaces" is a one-click way to turn webpage source into readable plain text.
PDFs store text by glyph position, not word order — so a column layout often pastes with mid-sentence line breaks. Word documents inject smart quotes (curly ' " instead of straight ' "), em-dashes, and non-breaking spaces. Web pages drop in zero-width characters, span tags, and HTML entities. Email clients add a soft-wrap at 76 characters. The cleaner uses a series of regex replacements to undo each of these in turn, giving you the equivalent of opening a fresh notepad document with just the words.
Pasting an academic PDF abstract into a citation manager, prepping a press-release draft for a CMS, cleaning a Slack thread before turning it into a meeting note, stripping HTML from a scraped page, removing emoji from a CSV column, or just neatening up an email forward chain.