🧹 Invisible Character Remover
Remove hidden characters, zero-width spaces, and clean up text
Cleaning Options
Show Invisible Characters
Try Examples
Common Invisible Characters
- Zero Width Space (ZWSP)
- Zero Width Joiner/Non-Joiner
- Non-Breaking Space (NBSP)
- Various Unicode spaces
- Control characters
- Directional marks (LRM/RLM)
- Byte Order Mark (BOM)
When to Use This Tool
- Cleaning copied text from websites
- Fixing formatting issues in documents
- Debugging text processing problems
- Preparing text for databases
- Removing hidden characters from passwords
Find and remove invisible Unicode characters from text — zero-width spaces, zero-width joiners, soft hyphens, direction marks and other hidden characters that break code, form validation and search. Paste your text to see exactly what is hiding in it and get a clean copy.
Frequently asked questions
Why does my copied text break code or fail validation?
Text copied from websites, PDFs, Word or chat apps often carries invisible characters like zero-width spaces (U+200B) or non-breaking spaces. They look identical to normal text but make strings compare as unequal, break JSON keys, and fail exact-match validation.
What invisible characters does this remove?
Zero-width spaces, zero-width joiners and non-joiners, word joiners, soft hyphens, byte order marks, and directional formatting marks — the usual suspects behind "identical" strings that don’t match. Normal spaces, tabs and line breaks are left alone.
How can I tell if my text contains hidden characters?
Paste it in — the tool highlights and counts each invisible character it finds before removing them, so you can see what was there rather than just trusting that something changed.
Why would text contain invisible characters in the first place?
Some are legitimate: zero-width joiners build multi-part emoji, soft hyphens mark optional line breaks, and direction marks support mixed right-to-left text. They only cause trouble when copied into places that expect plain text, like code or usernames.