Convert Smart Quotes to Straight Quotes Online
Strip HTML tags, smart quotes, weird dashes, emojis and invisible characters from any text — with per-category counters, privately in your browser.
Processed entirely in your browser — nothing you enter here is ever uploaded.
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About this tool
This page opens the text cleaner with quote conversion already enabled — paste text from Word, Google Docs or a PDF and get straight quotes back.
Word processors silently turn every straight quote into typographic ones — curly doubles, curly singles, guillemets or low-9 marks depending on the language. They look fine in print but break JSON, SQL, shell commands, CSV imports and config files that expect the plain ASCII " and ' characters.
The converter maps every curly, angled and low-9 variant back to straight quotes and counts the replacements, while the dash option normalizes en and em dashes to hyphens in the same pass. Everything runs locally in your browser.
Example. Stripping tags from a bold-tagged hello leaves the word hello and increments the removed-tag counter.
Limit. HTML, quotes, dashes, emoji, invisible characters, non-ASCII, and whitespace each apply only when that category is enabled.