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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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