Text Cleaner
Clean up messy text in one click.
How to use it
- Paste your messy text into the input box.
- Check or uncheck the cleaning options you want to apply.
- Click "Clean text" to process your text.
- Copy the cleaned result from the output box.
Examples and use cases
Cleaning text pasted from a PDF
PDFs often add line breaks in the middle of sentences and extra spaces between words. The text cleaner fixes both in one pass.
Removing smart quotes for code
Word processors convert straight quotes to curly "smart" quotes. These break code. Convert them back to straight quotes instantly.
Fixing copy-pasted email threads
Email threads accumulate extra blank lines, inconsistent spacing, and hidden characters. Clean them up before pasting into a document.
Preparing text for a CMS
Strip invisible Unicode characters, normalize whitespace, and fix line endings before pasting content into a content management system.
Frequently asked questions
- What hidden characters does this remove?
- The tool removes zero-width spaces, zero-width joiners, byte order marks, soft hyphens, non-breaking spaces (converting them to regular spaces), and other invisible Unicode control characters that often sneak into text from web pages and documents.
- Will this remove intentional formatting?
- You control which cleaning operations to apply. If you want to keep paragraph breaks but fix spacing, just uncheck the options you want to preserve. Each operation is independent.
- What are smart quotes?
- Smart quotes (also called curly quotes) are the angled quotation marks that word processors like Microsoft Word use automatically: “ ” and ‘ ’. The tool converts these to straight quotes: " and '.
- Does this fix line endings?
- Yes. The tool normalizes line endings from Windows (\r\n) and old Mac (\r) formats to the standard Unix format (\n), which works everywhere.
- Is my text sent to a server?
- No. All cleaning is done in your browser using JavaScript. Your text never leaves your device.
- Can I undo the cleaning?
- The original text stays in the input box, and the cleaned text appears in the output box. You always have both versions available until you close the page.
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About this tool
Messy text is everywhere. Copy from a PDF and you get line breaks in the middle of sentences. Paste from a word processor and you get smart quotes and hidden formatting characters. Pull text from a webpage and you get non-breaking spaces and zero-width characters.
The Wordshed text cleaner gives you toggle switches for the most common cleanup tasks so you can fix exactly what needs fixing without affecting the rest. Everything runs in your browser — your text never touches a server.