Text Cleaner and Formatter
Text Cleaner is a simple, all-in-one online tool that helps you clean and format text quickly. You can remove line breaks, strip HTML, change text case, find and replace words, and much more—all in one place.
Original Text
Cleaned Text
Spaces
Characters
HTML
Other
Links
Text Formatting
What is Text Cleaner?
Text Cleaner (also known as Clean Text) is a powerful, all-in-one online tool for cleaning and formatting text. Whether you’re dealing with messy text from Word documents, web pages, emails, or PDFs, this tool can tidy it all up in seconds.
You can use it to:
- Clean up unwanted spaces and characters
- Change letter case (UPPERCASE, lowercase, etc.)
- Fix spacing after punctuation
- Convert smart quotes to regular quotes
- Strip HTML tags
- Remove duplicate lines, emails, or URLs
- Decode HTML entities and URL-encoded characters
- Convert Unicode bold/italic to plain text
- Create your own custom find and replace list
…and much more.
Why Use It?
The main goal of Text Cleaner is to remove all the extra formatting and hidden junk that often sneaks in when copying text from other sources. It helps you get clean, readable, and professional-looking text—fast.
You can customize settings to fit your workflow. Your preferences are saved automatically in your browser, so everything’s ready to go next time you visit.
Fun fact: This tool was originally built to help with a data entry job—and it made things so much easier. Now it’s available for free to anyone: individuals, teams, or businesses. Just remember to back up your data—we’re not responsible for any losses.
How to Use Text Cleaner
- Paste your text into the input box.
- Choose your settings by checking or unchecking the options below.
- Click “Clean Text” to process your text.
- See the text cleaned in result box.
- Want to start over? Just hit the Reset button to clear everything.
What Can It Do?
Here’s a full breakdown of the cleaning and formatting options:
Whitespace
- Trim leading/trailing spaces
- Convert tabs to spaces or vice versa
- Remove empty lines
- Replace line breaks with spaces
- Condense multiple spaces or lines
Characters
- Remove punctuation
- Strip emojis
- Remove accents and diacritics
- Normalize Unicode
- Remove non-ASCII and non-alphanumeric characters
HTML
- Strip or unescape HTML tags
- Remove IDs, classes, inline styles
- Decode HTML entities and URL-encoded characters
Links
- Remove URLs
- Turn plain URLs into clickable links
Letter Case
- Convert to UPPERCASE, lowercase, Sentence case, Capitalized
- Leave as-is
Quotes
- Convert smart quotes to regular (or vice versa)
Duplicates
- Remove duplicate lines, paragraphs, or repeated words
Trim Characters
- Remove a set number of characters from the start or end of each line
Writing Fixes
- Fix spacing after punctuation
- Expand common shorthand into full words
Find and Replace
- Build your own custom list to replace text automatically