Tool description

The Text Cleaner is a free online tool that helps you clean and format text copied from various sources like PDFs, websites, or documents. This online line break remover and text formatting remover eliminates common issues like extra spaces, unwanted line breaks, and problematic characters. Use it to remove non-ASCII characters online, delete empty lines online, and prepare your text for use in documents or applications.

Features

  • Whitespace Management: Remove extra spaces and line breaks that clutter your text with our online line break remover
  • Line Formatting: Trim whitespace from each line or delete empty lines online to clean up your text
  • Invisible Character Removal: Detect and remove zero-width characters and non-ASCII characters that can cause issues
  • Smart Punctuation Normalization: Convert smart quotes to straight quotes and normalize various dash types
  • Text Formatting Remover: Automatically strip unwanted formatting and fix spacing around punctuation marks
  • Content Filtering: Remove URLs, email addresses, numbers, punctuation, or special characters online
  • Real-time Processing: See results instantly as you paste or modify text
  • Customizable Options: Enable or disable each cleaning feature independently

Use Cases

  • Document Preparation: Clean text copied from PDFs or web pages before inserting into your documents
  • Data Processing: Use this online tool to prepare text data for analysis by removing unwanted characters and normalizing formatting
  • Code Comments: Clean up copied code comments or documentation and remove non-ASCII characters online
  • Email Formatting: Use the online line break remover to clean extra line breaks and spaces from forwarded or quoted emails
  • Content Migration: Clean text and delete empty lines online when migrating content between different platforms or CMSs
  • Academic Writing: Remove extra spaces and normalize quotes when compiling research from various sources
  • Social Media: Use the text formatting remover to clean copied text before posting to ensure proper formatting
  • Translation Prep: Normalize text formatting and remove special characters before sending for translation
  • Data Entry: Clean copied data and delete empty lines online before entering into databases or spreadsheets
  • Plain Text Extraction: Convert formatted text to clean plain text by removing unwanted formatting

Cleaning Options

Spacing & Formatting

  • Remove extra spaces - Replaces multiple consecutive spaces with a single space
  • Remove extra line breaks - Online line break remover that reduces more than two consecutive line breaks to just two
  • Trim whitespace from each line - Removes leading and trailing spaces from each line
  • Remove empty lines - Delete empty lines online to eliminate blank lines from the text
  • Fix spacing around punctuation - Text formatting remover that removes spaces before punctuation and adds spaces after

Character Normalization

  • Remove zero-width characters - Removes invisible Unicode characters that can cause issues
  • Normalize smart quotes to straight quotes - Converts curly quotes (" " ' ') to straight quotes (" ')
  • Normalize dashes to hyphens - Converts en dashes (–) and em dashes (-) to regular hyphens (-)

Content Removal

  • Remove URLs - Strips out all web addresses (http/https links)
  • Remove email addresses - Removes all email addresses from the text
  • Remove numbers - Deletes all numeric digits
  • Remove punctuation - Strips out all punctuation marks
  • Remove special characters - Remove non-ASCII characters online and special characters while keeping letters, numbers, and basic punctuation