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Text Cleaner
Strip extra spaces, tabs, and weird characters in one click.
About this tool
When text comes from a PDF, OCR, or a sloppy paste, it's usually a mess — double spaces, smart quotes, weird line breaks. Text Cleaner normalizes everything in one pass so your text is ready to publish.
How to use
- Paste messy text.
- Pick which cleaners to run.
- Copy the result.
Benefits
- Multiple cleaners in one tool
- Smart-quote and ligature normalization
- Bulk-friendly
Real-world use cases
- • Cleaning OCR output
- • Tidying pasted Word documents
- • Normalizing forum posts
Tips & best practices
- • Run case conversion after cleaning, not before
- • Strip non-ASCII for legacy systems
- • Smart quotes break in URLs — always strip them
Frequently asked questions
What's a smart quote?
Curly quotes (“ ”) that Word inserts automatically. They break code and URLs.
Will it preserve paragraphs?
Yes, only intra-paragraph whitespace is collapsed by default.
Can it remove HTML?
Yes — there's a 'strip HTML' option.
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