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Text Cleaner

Remove HTML tags, extra whitespace, special characters, and more from text.

Options

Text Cleaner applies a configurable pipeline of transformations to your text. Select any combination of options — strip HTML markup, collapse whitespace, trim line edges, eliminate blank lines, scrub special characters, or decode entity sequences — then click Clean Text. All processing is local.

Frequently Asked Questions

In what order are transformations applied? +

Transformations run in the order shown: decode HTML entities → remove HTML tags → collapse extra spaces → trim each line → remove empty lines → remove special characters. This order ensures the best results when multiple options are selected together.

What counts as a "special character"? +

When "Remove special characters" is enabled, any character that is not a letter, digit, or whitespace is stripped. This preserves readable text while removing punctuation, symbols, and control characters.

Does it work on large documents? +

Yes — all transformations use native string operations and regex, so even multi-megabyte text documents process near-instantly in modern browsers.

Frequently Asked Questions

Extra whitespace, duplicate spaces, leading/trailing spaces, smart quotes, zero-width characters, and optionally special/punctuation characters.