How the Text Cleaner Works
The SimpleTaskTools Text Cleaner is a powerful, free online utility designed to help you clean up messy text instantly. Whether you are copying content from PDFs, Word documents, web pages, or other sources, our text cleaner removes unwanted formatting and fixes common text issues with just one click.
Strip Hidden Formatting
When you copy text from various sources, it often contains invisible characters like zero-width spaces, soft hyphens, and other formatting marks that can cause problems when pasting into other applications. Our text cleaner automatically detects and removes these hidden characters, giving you clean, portable text that works everywhere.
Fix Smart Quotes and Special Characters
Microsoft Word and other word processors often convert straight quotes to smart or curly quotes. While these look nice in documents, they can cause issues in code, HTML, and plain text files. Our smart quote fixer converts all typographic quotes back to standard ASCII quotes, and handles en-dashes, em-dashes, and ellipsis characters as well.
Remove Extra Line Breaks
Text copied from PDFs and emails often contains excessive line breaks that disrupt the flow of your content. The text cleaner intelligently collapses multiple consecutive line breaks into just two, preserving paragraph structure while eliminating unnecessary gaps.
Case Conversion Options
Need to change the case of your text? Our built-in case converter supports UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, and Sentence case transformations. Perfect for formatting headings, normalizing data, or preparing text for different contexts.
Privacy-First Design
Your text never leaves your browser. All processing happens locally on your device using JavaScript, which means your sensitive content stays private. There are no servers involved, no data collection, and no tracking - just a fast, reliable tool that respects your privacy.