🧽 Text Cleaner
Fix messy text: spaces, quotes, invisible characters and more — all in your browser
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Applied in the order listed.
Clean up messy text in one pass: collapse extra spaces and blank lines, convert curly "smart" quotes to straight ones, strip invisible zero-width characters, and normalise line endings. Handy for text copied from PDFs, Word documents or the web.
Frequently asked questions
Why does my pasted text have weird spacing or characters?
Text copied from PDFs, Word or web pages often carries non-breaking spaces, zero-width characters, smart quotes and mixed line endings that are invisible but break code, forms and search. This tool strips or normalises them so you get plain, predictable text.
What are zero-width and invisible characters?
They are Unicode characters that take up no visible space — like the zero-width space and joiner — often introduced by copy-paste or used deliberately to fingerprint text. They can break string comparisons and validation, and this tool removes them.
What is the difference between smart quotes and straight quotes?
Smart quotes are the curly typographic marks that word processors insert automatically; straight quotes are the plain " and ' characters that code and most software expect. Converting to straight quotes fixes errors when pasting text into code, JSON or configuration files.