Free Text Cleaner - Remove invisible characters

Why this tool?

A text copied from Word, an AI or a web page often carries characters you cannot see: no-break spaces, zero-width spaces, direction marks, em dashes, curly quotes. They break your CSV exports, your SQL queries and your imports, and they can also be used to identify where a text comes from. Paste your content on the left: the tool cleans it live, tells you exactly what it found and hands back plain standard characters. Everything runs in your browser, no data is sent to our servers.

Cleaning rules

Invisible characters Zero-width spaces, direction marks, BOM, control codes and hidden tag characters

Typographic dashes Em dash, en dash and minus sign replaced by a plain hyphen

Quotes and apostrophes Curly apostrophes replaced by ' and curly quotes by " (French guillemets are kept)

Typographic symbols Ellipsis and ligatures replaced by their keyboard equivalent

Extra spaces No-break and exotic spaces turned into a plain space, duplicates removed

Useless line breaks Lines trimmed and multiple blank lines reduced to a single one

Rejoin wrapped lines Puts back together the sentences cut in the middle by a line break, lists untouched

Letters imitating the Latin alphabet Cyrillic, Greek, full-width and mathematical alphabets folded back to ASCII (avoid on multilingual text)

Original text

Cleaned text