Text Cleaner / Formatting Remover

When you copy from a rich-text editor, your clipboard holds at least two flavours of the same content: text/plain and text/html. Most paste targets quietly take the HTML — which for Word means kilobytes of mso- styles, conditional comments, and o:p tags wrapped around every paragraph. This tool reads the text/html flavour directly on paste, parses it with the browser’s DOMParser (the markup is never rendered or executed, so embedded scripts are inert), and extracts only the visible text.

Table cells are preserved with tab characters between columns and a line break per row — so a pasted Word or Google Sheets table drops straight into Excel or Sheets with the structure intact. Images have no text content and are dropped. Lists keep one item per line.

Curly quotes (U+201C/U+201D) and em dashes (U+2014) are fine in prose but break things in technical contexts: code snippets fail to compile, CSV parsers mis-split fields, and search/matching treats “word” and "word" as different strings. Word’s AutoCorrect inserts them as you type, so they end up everywhere. The dash policy is separate because some style guides want em dashes kept; choose keep, convert to hyphen, or remove.

It treats a blank line as a paragraph boundary (kept) and any single line break inside a paragraph as a wrap artefact (replaced with a space). This is exactly what you want for text from PDFs and emails, where every visual line ends in a hard return. “Strip all” flattens everything to one line; “keep” touches nothing. The dedicated Line Break Remover offers the same modes with more surgical control.

2 MB of text (about 300,000 words), which covers any realistic document. Beyond that the input is rejected with a clear message rather than freezing your tab. Within the limit, cleaning is instant — every operation is a single linear pass.

Use this page for the common case: messy paste, one click, done. Reach for the specialised siblings when you need fine control — the Whitespace Cleaner reports per-character-type counts and has a preserve-indentation mode for code; the Line Break Remover has paragraph heuristics tuned for PDFs; the Special Character Remover lets you whitelist exactly which characters survive; and the AI Text Cleaner targets Markdown artefacts and em-dash patterns specific to AI-generated text.