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Remove Special Characters from Text Online

Strip HTML tags, smart quotes, weird dashes, emojis and invisible characters from any text — with per-category counters, privately in your browser.

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Scanning the pasted text
Detecting special characters
Applying the selected cleanups
Counting removed characters

Result

This page opens the text cleaner with its standard cleanup selected: smart quotes and long dashes are normalized, invisible characters are stripped and extra whitespace is collapsed — paste your text and run it.

Special characters usually sneak in with copy-paste from Word, Google Docs and PDF files: typographic quotes break code and CSV imports, em dashes confuse plain-text systems, and zero-width characters are entirely invisible until something downstream chokes on them.

Each cleanup category is a separate checkbox with its own counter, so you can see exactly what was removed — and add HTML tag stripping or emoji removal on top when the text needs it. Everything runs locally in your browser.

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Executed in Browser

Your files and inputs never leave this device. Processing runs completely offline. 100% Secure.

Accepted Formats & Rules

  • Seven independent cleanups: HTML tags, smart quotes, dashes, emojis, invisible characters, non-ASCII characters and extra whitespace.
  • Removes zero-width characters (ZWSP, ZWNJ, ZWJ, BOM, soft hyphen) that break search, diffs and AI-text detectors.
  • Converts curly and angled quotes to straight ones and long dashes to plain hyphens for code and CSV-safe text.

Key Benefits

✓ Complete privacy: the text is cleaned entirely in your browser and never sent to a server.
✓ Transparent result: a counter for every category shows exactly how many tags, quotes, emojis or hidden characters were removed.
✓ Honest options: the destructive non-ASCII filter is off by default and clearly warns that it deletes all non-Latin letters.

Use Cases

  • • Clean text copied from Word or Google Docs before pasting it into code, JSON or a CSV file: smart quotes become straight and long dashes become hyphens.
  • • Strip HTML tags from a scraped page or a rich-text e-mail and get plain readable text with entities decoded.
  • • Remove zero-width and other invisible characters from a suspicious snippet so string comparisons, diffs and searches work again.