Utilities
Clean Up Text
Clean messy text by removing extra spaces, blank lines, line breaks, HTML tags, special characters, and whitespace.
About the text cleaner
Remove extra spaces, blank lines, HTML tags, special characters, and other formatting cruft that creeps in when you copy text from a PDF, web page, or chat. Configurable so you can strip exactly what you don't want.
Frequently asked questions
Will it remove emoji?
Only if you toggle 'strip non-ASCII'. By default we keep emoji and accented characters.
Can it turn smart quotes into straight quotes?
Yes, that's the 'normalise punctuation' option - smart quotes, em dashes, and ellipses all collapse to their ASCII equivalents.