Text cleaner
Fix text copied from a PDF, a website or an email that arrives full of odd breaks and spaces.
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How to use the text cleaner
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Paste the messy text.
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Turn on the clean-ups you need.
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Copy the clean text.
About this tool
Text copied from a PDF often ends every line with a break, has double spaces or invisible characters. “Join lines” turns it into one continuous paragraph.
You can also strip HTML tags and replace curly quotes with straight ones.
Frequently asked questions
How do I remove line breaks from text copied from a PDF?
Turn on “Join lines into one paragraph”. All lines are joined with a single space.
What are invisible characters?
Characters like zero-width spaces or non-breaking spaces that you can't see but that can break searches and forms.