Why does pasted text from Word or PDFs look messy?

Word documents and PDFs often embed non-breaking spaces (\u00A0), smart quotes, em-dashes, and invisible formatting characters that are not visible but cause issues in plain text environments. The Text Cleaner removes all of these.

Will removing HTML tags also remove the text inside them?

No. The tool strips only the HTML tags themselves (e.g., , , ), preserving the visible text content between them.

What does "normalise whitespace" do?

It collapses consecutive spaces, tabs, and other whitespace characters into a single space, and trims leading/trailing whitespace from the entire text.

Can I choose which cleaning operations to apply?

Yes. Each cleaning option (extra spaces, blank lines, HTML tags, special characters, smart quotes) can be toggled independently so you only apply the operations you need.

Does it convert smart quotes to straight quotes?

Yes. The "smart quotes" option replaces curly/typographic quotes (“ ” ‘ ’) with standard straight quotes, which is important for code, configuration files, and plain text environments.

Text Cleaner Tool

The Text Cleaner removes common text pollution — extra whitespace, blank lines, HTML tags, non-breaking spaces, and special characters. Select only the cleaning operations you need. Particularly useful for pasted content from Word documents, PDFs, or web pages that carries hidden formatting.

Runs entirely in your browser — your input is never uploaded, stored, or logged.

Select the cleanup operations that apply to your text and get pristine output ready for publishing. For removing hard line breaks from PDF-pasted text, try the Unwrap Text tool.

How to Use

1Paste your text into the input box.
2Select the cleaning options you need.
3Click Clean.
4Copy the cleaned plain text output.

Common Uses

→Clean text copied from PDFs that contains extra line breaks
→Remove trailing spaces and invisible characters from pasted content
→Normalize curly quotes and em dashes to plain ASCII
→Strip HTML tags and formatting from copied web content

Examples

Remove extra spaces

Input

Hello    world   from   FormatGenie

Output

Hello world from FormatGenie

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