Remove Special Characters
Keep letters, numbers, and spaces; drop the rest.
Remove Special Characters is a browser-based text tool on TextToolsBase. Keep letters, numbers, and spaces; drop the rest. To use it, paste or type your text and view the result directly in your browser — no signup and nothing to install.
Symbols, punctuation, and stray marks can break imports, validation rules, and slugs that expect only plain words and numbers.
Remove Special Characters keeps letters, numbers, and spacing and removes everything else.
How to use Remove Special Characters
- Paste text that contains symbols or punctuation you want gone.
- Remove Special Characters keeps letters, numbers, and whitespace and drops the rest.
- Copy the cleaned text made only of words, numbers, and spaces.
Use cases
- Cleaning a field so it holds only letters and numbers before import.
- Building a simple slug from a messy title.
- Removing emoji and symbols from a pasted comment.
Good to know
Remove Special Characters keeps Unicode letters, numbers, combining marks, and whitespace, and removes punctuation and symbols. Because it keeps Unicode letters, accented and non-Latin words survive while symbols and emoji are stripped. Spacing is preserved so words stay separated.
Frequently asked questions
What is treated as a special character?
Anything that is not a letter, number, or whitespace, which includes punctuation, currency and math symbols, and emoji.
Are accented or non-Latin letters removed?
No. Letters from any script are kept; only symbols and punctuation are removed.
Does it keep my spaces and line breaks?
Yes. Whitespace is preserved so the cleaned words remain separated.