Text Cleaner
Remove HTML tags, extra whitespace, special characters, and more from text.
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.
How to Use
- 1
Paste your text
Enter the messy text you want to clean — copied from a PDF, web page, or email.
- 2
Select cleaning options
Toggle which cleanups to apply: collapse spaces, remove line breaks, strip special characters, trim whitespace.
- 3
Copy the clean text
Click "Clean" and copy the normalized text from the output panel.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Extra whitespace, duplicate spaces, leading/trailing spaces, smart quotes, zero-width characters, and optionally special/punctuation characters.