Text Cleaner
Clean messy text: strip extra spaces, fix punctuation and convert smart quotes.
About Text Cleaner
Clean up text pasted from Word, PDFs or the web in one click. Strip extra spaces and blank lines, remove special characters, convert curly smart quotes and dashes to plain ASCII, and fix the spacing after punctuation. Toggle each fix independently — everything happens locally in your browser.
How to use Text Cleaner
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Paste the messy text you want to clean.
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Turn on the cleaning options that apply.
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Copy the polished result.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are smart quotes?
Smart (curly) quotes are the typographic “curly” quotation marks and apostrophes inserted by word processors. This tool converts them to plain straight quotes that work everywhere.
Will removing special characters delete punctuation?
No. Common punctuation such as periods, commas, question marks, quotes and parentheses is preserved; only unusual symbols and non-standard characters are removed.
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