Text Cleaner

Apply selected text cleanup operations while keeping a visible record of the choices you made.

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How this works

The tool runs in this browser. Your file or text is not uploaded to UseFreeTools. Check this tool's limits for anything it may save on your device.

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Clean text controls

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Up to 200,000 characters. Select only the changes you want; options run in the order listed.

Removes tag-shaped text such as <b> and </b>. It leaves the text between tags and is not a webpage security sanitizer.

Removes control characters while keeping tabs and line breaks.

Normalizes line endings, reduces spaces and tabs, keeps paragraph breaks, and trims the beginning and end.

Combines canonically equivalent character sequences where Unicode NFC allows it.

Changes curly single and double quotation marks to straight quotes.

Removes Unicode symbol characters, including many currency and mathematical signs. Review the result before using it.

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How to use Text Cleaner

  1. Paste the text you want to clean.
  2. Select only the cleanup operations you need.
  3. Run the cleanup and compare the result with your original.

Example: Text Cleaner

Text Cleaner: No cleaning options were selected; the text was returned unchanged.

You add
Text: “Héllo” <b>team</b> Remove simple HTML-like tags: off Remove control characters: off Clean repeated whitespace: off Normalize Unicode to NFC: off Replace typographic quotes: off Remove Unicode symbols: off
You get
No cleaning options were selected; the text was returned unchanged. “Héllo” <b>team</b>

Options

Selected operations
Choose only the transformations needed. With every option off, the original text is returned unchanged.
Tag-like text
Removing simple HTML-like tags is a literal pattern operation. It can remove meaningful angle-bracket text and does not make HTML safe to render.

Supported inputs and limits

Up to 200,000 input characters. Options perform literal text transformations, with no HTML parsing or execution. Tag stripping is a bounded pattern operation and can remove meaningful angle-bracket content. Normalization uses NFC when selected; symbol/control removal can change meaning. Keep the original and inspect the result. This is not an HTML sanitizer or a security filter.

Where your input is processed

This tool processes your input in this browser. Your text and files are not uploaded to UseFreeTools. Check this tool's limits for anything it may save on your device.

Compare the result before replacing the source

Whitespace, controls, symbols, quotes and Unicode normalization can all carry meaning in a document or code sample. Work on a copy and inspect the changed wording. This page performs text transformations; it does not parse HTML or sanitize untrusted markup.

Questions about Text Cleaner

Will it clean formatted Word content?

It works on pasted plain text. Document formatting and embedded objects are outside the input this page receives.

Why are the options separate?

Spacing, symbols and control characters can carry meaning. Choose each operation deliberately instead of removing all of them at once.

Is tag removal safe for publishing HTML?

No. It removes matching literal text and does not validate an HTML document. Use an appropriate HTML sanitizer in the publishing system.

Project manager: Tony Hines · Content updated 4 October 2026 · Report a problem