Pasted text frequently carries several problems together: leftover HTML, invisible characters, curly quotes, and ragged spacing that no single fix resolves.
Text Cleaner turns on every cleanup at once so one pass handles the lot, with switches to fine-tune.
How to use Text Cleaner
- Paste the messy text you want fully cleaned.
- Text Cleaner runs every step: strip HTML, remove invisible characters, straighten quotes and dashes, and tidy spacing.
- Untick any step you want to keep, then copy the cleaned text.
Use cases
- Doing a one-pass cleanup of text from an unknown source.
- Tidying a paste that has tags, odd quotes, and bad spacing at once.
- Preparing miscellaneous copy for a plain-text field.
Good to know
Text Cleaner enables all of its steps by default: strip HTML, normalize spaces, remove invisible characters, straighten quotes and dashes, and collapse blank lines. Each is a switch, so you can relax the cleanup when you want to keep something. It is the most thorough preset in this group.
Frequently asked questions
What does the straighten quotes and dashes step do?
It converts curly quotes to straight quotes and long dashes to a plain hyphen so the text is consistent and ASCII-friendly.
Can I turn individual steps off?
Yes. Every cleanup is an independent switch, so you can disable any step you want to preserve.
Does cleaning change the meaning of my text?
No. It removes formatting, invisible characters, and uneven spacing; the words themselves are not changed.