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Text Cleaner

Clean messy text: strip extra spaces, fix punctuation and convert smart quotes.

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About Text Cleaner

Clean up text pasted from Word, PDFs or the web in one click. Strip extra spaces and blank lines, remove special characters, convert curly smart quotes and dashes to plain ASCII, and fix the spacing after punctuation. Toggle each fix independently — everything happens locally in your browser.

How to use

  1. 1

    Paste the messy text you want to clean.

  2. 2

    Turn on the cleaning options that apply.

  3. 3

    Copy the polished result.

Tip: All processing is performed locally in your browser with zero loss in quality and no upload limits.

Frequently Asked Questions

Smart (curly) quotes are the typographic “curly” quotation marks and apostrophes inserted by word processors. This tool converts them to plain straight quotes that work everywhere.

All processing happens locally in your browser. Your files are never uploaded anywhere.

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