Remove Text Formatting
Paste text copied from a web page, Word document, Google Doc, or email. This cleaner strips HTML tags, styles, emojis, and extra whitespace — leaving you with clean, plain text.
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What Does This Tool Remove?
HTML tags — <p>, <strong>, <div>, <span>, <a href>, and any other HTML markup that comes along when you copy from a website or rich text editor.
Emojis — strips all emoji characters from the text, useful for processing text that will go into plain-text systems that don't support Unicode emoji ranges.
Extra spaces — collapses multiple consecutive spaces, tabs, and non-breaking spaces ( ) into a single space, and trims leading/trailing whitespace from each line.
Blank lines — removes empty lines between paragraphs, producing a compact block of text.
URLs — strips http/https links (optional), useful when you want to clean a web article of all hyperlink text.
Numbers & punctuation — optional cleaners to remove all digits or all punctuation marks from the text.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does pasted text have strange symbols and formatting?
When you copy text from a web page, Word, or Google Docs, the clipboard carries hidden formatting data — HTML tags, style attributes, special Unicode spaces, and non-breaking spaces. Plain text editors strip this automatically, but other apps preserve it. This cleaner removes it all.
Will this remove line breaks?
The "Remove blank lines" option removes empty lines but preserves meaningful line breaks within your text. Disabling it keeps all line breaks exactly as you pasted them.
Does it work with text copied from PDFs?
Yes — text copied from PDFs often contains extra hyphens, strange line breaks, and multiple spaces. This tool normalizes all of that. However, the cleaner works on the clipboard text, not the PDF itself.
Is my text stored anywhere?
No. All processing happens locally in your browser. Nothing is sent to any server. Your text stays completely private.