Text Cleaner
Remove extra whitespace, special characters, invisible Unicode, and non-ASCII text. Clean up messy text in seconds.
How to Use the Text Cleaner
1
Paste Your Text
Copy messy text from any source — web pages, PDFs, word processors, emails — and paste it into the input area.
2
Choose Cleaning Options
Toggle through the cleaning options: remove extra spaces, strip invisible Unicode, delete special characters, or remove non-ASCII text.
3
Clean and Copy
Click Clean Text to process. Review the cleaned result, copy it to clipboard, or swap it back to the input for further editing.
Common Invisible Unicode Characters
| Character | Code Point | Name | Common Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZWSP | U+200B | Zero-Width Space | Word processors, web copy-paste |
| ZWNJ | U+200C | Zero-Width Non-Joiner | Unicode text, some fonts |
| ZWJ | U+200D | Zero-Width Joiner | Emoji sequences, fonts |
| LRM | U+200E | Left-to-Right Mark | Bi-directional text |
| SHY | U+00AD | Soft Hyphen | Word processors, PDFs |
Frequently Asked Questions
This text cleaner can remove extra whitespace, strip special characters, eliminate invisible Unicode characters (zero-width spaces, control characters), remove non-ASCII characters for plain text output, collapse multiple line breaks, and normalize line endings. It also shows you a summary of what was removed.
Invisible Unicode characters include zero-width spaces (U+200B), zero-width non-joiners (U+200C), zero-width joiners (U+200D), left-to-right marks (U+200E), right-to-left marks (U+200F), soft hyphens (U+00AD), and various other control characters. They are often inserted by word processors or copied from web pages and can cause issues in data processing.
Text cleaning is essential before data analysis, SEO content creation, programming (especially with strings), database imports, and when copying text from PDFs or web pages. Invisible characters can break JSON, CSV, or database queries. Extra whitespace can cause formatting issues in code or content management systems.
The 'Remove special characters' option removes all non-alphanumeric characters except spaces, including punctuation, symbols, emoji, mathematical operators, and currency signs. The 'Keep basic punctuation' variant preserves common punctuation like periods, commas, apostrophes, hyphens, and question marks.
Yes, but use caution with code. The 'Remove special characters' option will strip programming syntax. For cleaning code, only use the whitespace and invisible Unicode options. For data files like CSV or JSON, removing invisible characters is usually safe and recommended before parsing.
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