Text Cleaner
Clean messy text in one click by combining common tidying operations: collapse extra spaces, trim each line, remove empty lines, deduplicate lines, strip non-ASCII characters and remove special characters. Toggle the operations you want, apply, and copy the result.
How to use
- 1
Paste your text
Drop in the messy block of text — code, copy from a PDF, a log file, anything that needs tidying.
- 2
Tick the operations
Choose any combination: collapse extra spaces, trim each line, remove empty lines, deduplicate lines, strip non-ASCII, remove special characters.
- 3
Clean
Click Clean text. Operations run in the listed order, and the before/after counters show how much was removed.
- 4
Copy or save
Use Copy to put the result on your clipboard, or Save to download cleaned.txt.
Common use cases
- Tidy text pasted from a PDF before importing into a CMS.
- Normalise log output before sharing in a bug report.
- Strip emoji and special characters from a CSV before import.
- Deduplicate and clean a list of tags exported from a tool.
Limitations
- Operations run in a fixed order: non-ASCII strip → special-char strip → trim → collapse spaces → remove empty lines → deduplicate. Toggling later operations does not change earlier steps.
- Remove special characters keeps a small set of punctuation (period, comma, apostrophe, hyphen, question mark, exclamation mark, colon, semicolon). Other punctuation is removed.
- Remove duplicate lines compares exact text after cleaning — case-sensitive and whitespace-sensitive.
- Inputs larger than 1 MB are flagged but still processed on the main thread.
Frequently asked questions
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Remove Empty Lines
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Remove Duplicate Lines
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Case Converter
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