Text Cleaner — Tidy Up Messy Text
Clean messy text: fix spacing, strip HTML, normalise quotes and more.
Tidy up text pasted from PDFs, web pages, emails or AI assistants — collapse spacing, strip HTML, normalise curly quotes and more. Toggle only what you need. Runs in your browser.
Paste text from PDFs, web pages, emails or AI assistants and clean it up with toggleable options: trim lines, collapse extra spaces, remove blank lines, strip HTML tags, turn curly quotes and dashes into plain ones, remove special characters, or join everything into a single line. Pick only the fixes you want and copy the tidy result. Runs entirely in your browser.
How to use the Text Cleaner
- Paste your messy text.
- Tick the cleanup options you want.
- Copy the cleaned text.
Frequently asked questions
What does 'strip HTML tags' do?
It removes anything between angle brackets (like <b> or <div>), leaving just the readable text — handy when you copy content out of a web page.
Why turn smart quotes into plain ones?
Curly 'smart' quotes and em dashes from word processors and AI output can break code, CSV files and some forms. Converting them to straight quotes and hyphens avoids those issues.
Is my text uploaded?
No. All cleaning runs in your browser; your text never leaves your device.