Text Cleanup Tools

Strip out the formatting, markup, and mess that gets in the way of clean text — pasted rich-text formatting, line breaks, extra spaces, duplicate lines, HTML tags, punctuation, numbers, unsorted lists, and delimited data, all handled in your browser.

Most of this text-cleanup baggage comes from the same handful of sources: a PDF that came with page numbers and footnote markers baked into the copy, a CMS export that dragged its HTML tags along with it, a spreadsheet column pasted with an item number stuck to the front of every row, or a list that's accumulated duplicate entries after being merged from two sources. Each tool below targets one specific kind of mess rather than trying to guess and fix everything at once.

When text needs more than one fix, order matters. Strip structural markup (HTML tags) before you normalize whitespace, since removing tags can leave extra spaces or blank lines behind that a later pass should clean up. Save deduping and sorting for the end — a list is only genuinely free of duplicates once the whitespace and formatting around each line is already consistent, otherwise two lines that are "the same" except for a trailing space won't match.

Text pasted from a word processor, a web page or a chat app is a mess you cannot always see. Remove Text Formatting is usually the first step for that: it keeps only the plain text, straightens curly quotes and dashes, and clears out non-breaking spaces and zero-width characters, so the other tools then work on text that is exactly what it looks like.

Exported spreadsheet data is its own case: the CSV to Text Converter turns comma-, tab-, semicolon-, or pipe-delimited rows into readable plain text before you run any of the other cleanups on the result.

A spreadsheet or CSV column usually needs Remove Numbers or Remove Punctuation followed by Sort Lines Alphabetically. A document pasted from a webpage usually needs Remove HTML Tags followed by Remove Blank Lines. A list merged from two sources usually needs Remove Duplicate Lines last, once everything else is normalized.

All Text Cleanup Tools

Remove Line Breaks

Join multi-line text into one continuous paragraph or a custom separator.

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Remove Spaces from Text

Strip every space, or just collapse repeated spaces down to one.

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Remove Duplicate Lines

Delete repeated lines from a list, with optional case-sensitive matching.

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Remove Blank Lines

Strip empty and whitespace-only lines while keeping everything else.

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Remove HTML Tags

Strip HTML markup down to plain text, with entity decoding and line-break options.

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Remove Punctuation

Strip punctuation marks while optionally keeping apostrophes in contractions.

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Remove Numbers

Strip every digit from your text and clean up the spacing left behind.

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Sort Lines Alphabetically

Sort a list A → Z or Z → A, with natural number sorting built in.

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Remove Accents from Text

Strip accents and diacritics, converting é, ñ, ü, ç and others to plain ASCII.

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Whitespace Remover

Strip all whitespace entirely, or trim just the leading and trailing edges.

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Remove Text Formatting

Paste rich text and get clean plain text, with smart quotes, odd spaces and hidden characters tidied.

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Remove Emojis from Text

Strip emoji characters, including skin tones and flags, leaving everything else intact.

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CSV to Text Converter

Turn comma, tab, semicolon, or pipe-delimited data into readable plain text.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What order should I run multiple cleanup tools in?

Strip structure before you strip content: run Remove HTML Tags first if your text has markup, then Remove Spaces from Text and Remove Blank Lines to normalize whitespace, and run Remove Duplicate Lines or Sort Lines Alphabetically last, once the list is already clean — deduping or sorting a messy list just locks the mess into a different order.

Will these tools work on code and data, not just prose?

Yes — several of them are used on code and structured data as often as on writing. Remove Duplicate Lines and Sort Lines Alphabetically are common for cleaning up lists, CSV columns, and config values, and Remove Blank Lines is frequently used on code files exported from one editor before pasting into another.

Can I undo a cleanup if I paste the wrong text or pick the wrong option?

Each tool's Reset button puts back the text you last typed or pasted into the input box (or the sample text, if you haven't entered anything yet) and clears the result. It doesn't keep a multi-step history, so if you edit the input and want an earlier version back, copy it somewhere else before running it through a tool.

Do any of these tools require me to upload a file?

No. Every tool here works by pasting text directly into a box — there's no file upload, and the text never leaves your browser. That also means there's no file-size limit tied to an upload; the only practical limit is how much your browser can comfortably hold in memory.