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Copy-Paste Text Cleaner

Text copied from web pages, Word documents and chat apps often carries invisible characters, double spaces and curly quotes that break forms and code. Paste it here and get clean, plain text back.

Runs in your browser Instant resultsFree · no sign-up

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Result

Paste or type text on the left and the result appears here instantly.

How to use the Copy-Paste Cleaner

  1. 1

    Paste your text.

  2. 2

    Pick the cleanup options you want.

  3. 3

    Copy or download the cleaned result.

Helpful examples

  • Clean a paragraph copied from a website before pasting into an email
  • Remove invisible zero-width characters that break a password or code
  • Convert curly quotes to straight quotes for a spreadsheet or CSV

What counts as messy text?

Non-breaking spaces, zero-width joiners, soft hyphens, tabs, trailing spaces and curly punctuation all look normal on screen but behave differently when you search, sort or submit text. This cleaner normalizes them to plain characters.

You stay in control

Every cleanup step is a separate switch, so you can keep line breaks for a list, or flatten everything to one line for a form field.

Frequently asked questions

Does it remove formatting like bold?

Pasting into the box already removes rich formatting. The cleaner then fixes the characters themselves.

What are zero-width characters?

Invisible characters such as U+200B that can sneak in from web pages. They cause failed logins and mismatched searches.

Is my text stored?

No. Everything runs in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere.