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Clean Text

Fix everything wrong with pasted text in a single pass.

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Clean Text fixes everything wrong with pasted text in a single pass: smart quotes become plain ones, every kind of Unicode space becomes an ordinary space, invisible characters are removed, broken lines are rejoined into paragraphs and repeated spaces are collapsed. Each fix is a switch, and a summary shows what actually changed.

What it does
Applies every common text fix in one pass
You give it
Text copied from a PDF, email, web page or word processor
You get back
Clean text plus a summary of every change made
Best for
Anything pasted from somewhere else
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About the Clean Text

Text copied out of a PDF, an email or a web page arrives carrying every artefact of where it has been: curly quotes that break code, non-breaking spaces that fail validation, a hard line break at the end of every visual line, double spaces after full stops and a byte order mark at the front. Fixing them one tool at a time takes five passes.

This does all of it at once. Smart quotes and dashes become their plain equivalents, every kind of Unicode space becomes an ordinary space, invisible characters are removed, broken lines are rejoined into paragraphs, repeated spaces are collapsed and line ends are trimmed. Each fix is a switch, so you can leave out the ones you do not want, and a summary shows exactly what was changed rather than leaving you to spot it.

Key features of the Clean Text

Smart quotes flattened

Curly quotes and apostrophes become straight ones, which is what code, CSV files and search matching require.

Broken lines rejoined

The hard break at the end of every visual line in a PDF is removed while blank lines stay as paragraph breaks.

Invisible characters removed

Zero-width spaces, byte order marks, soft hyphens and directional marks all go in the same pass.

Every fix is optional

Switch off line rejoining for code, or keep smart quotes for prose — the tool never insists.

Change summary

Each category of fix is counted, so you can see what was wrong rather than having to spot it yourself.

How to use the Clean Text

  1. 1

    Paste the messy text

    Anything copied from a PDF, an email, a web page or a word processor.

  2. 2

    Choose your fixes

    Smart quotes, spacing, invisible characters, line rejoining and trimming are each their own switch.

  3. 3

    Read the change summary

    Every category of fix is counted, so you can see what the tool actually did.

  4. 4

    Copy the clean text

    Copy the result, or send it back to the input for a second pass with different options.

Frequently asked questions

Curly quotation marks and apostrophes that word processors substitute automatically. They look better in prose but break code, CSV files and search matching, because they are different characters from the straight ones.

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