How to clean up text with Text Cleaner
Put text in Input text or choose Upload for a text file. Then select a preset or choose individual actions. Text Cleaner can change whitespace, line endings, characters, markup, URLs, email addresses, and repeated lines. Cleaned output updates as you change the input or settings.
- Paste text into Input text, or choose Upload for a
.txt,.md,.csv,.tsv, or.logfile. - Choose General Text, Documents, Email, AI / Markdown, Code, or Data.
- Adjust an action checkbox, Tab size, or Max blank lines for your input.
- Read the result in Cleaned output and check the character and line counts.
- Choose Copy or Download for the result.
What Text Cleaner presets change
Each preset replaces the current checkbox selection. General Text trims line edges, collapses repeated spaces and blank lines, normalizes line endings, converts smart quotes, and trims the whole text. Documents also removes control characters and converts tabs. Email removes quoted reply lines and repeated punctuation while trimming trailing spaces. AI / Markdown removes zero-width characters and changes quotes, dashes, and ellipses while leaving Markdown formatting. Code removes control characters and converts tabs while keeping leading whitespace. Data removes empty lines and exact duplicate lines.
For a targeted cleanup, choose Clear all actions, then enable the actions you need. With Collapse repeated spaces/tabs and Remove duplicate lines selected, repeated input becomes one line:
Line with extra spaces.
Line with extra spaces.Output:
Line with extra spaces.How to remove extra spaces from text
Collapse repeated spaces/tabs changes each run of spaces or tabs into one space. Trim leading whitespace per line and Trim trailing whitespace per line handle the two edges of each line. Convert tabs to spaces uses the number in Tab size. The Tab size control shows 1 through 12, and Max blank lines shows 0 through 10 when Collapse consecutive blank lines is selected.
Remove all empty lines deletes blank and whitespace-only lines. Actions run in a fixed order, so clicking them in a different order does not change the result. Input changes, checkbox changes, and numeric setting changes update Cleaned output. A checkbox change also switches the active configuration to Custom.
What Text Cleaner changes in pasted text
Characters & Encoding contains actions for control characters, zero-width characters, non-ASCII characters, emojis, smart quotes, em/en dashes, and the ellipsis character. Markup actions strip HTML tags or Markdown formatting. Content Removal can remove URLs, email addresses, quoted reply lines beginning with >, repeated punctuation, and duplicate lines.
Remove duplicate lines compares complete line strings. Remove URLs matches http://, https://, and www. patterns. Strip HTML tags and Strip Markdown formatting use text patterns. Clear all actions unchecks every action, so the output stays the same as the input.
Examples of preset choices
General Text suits a draft with inconsistent line endings, smart quotes, and extra spaces. It trims line edges and the whole text.
Code converts tab characters using Tab size, removes control characters, and trims trailing whitespace while keeping leading indentation.
Email removes quoted reply lines and repeated punctuation, which leaves the message text ready for reuse as a support note.
When to use a focused cleaner
Use Text Cleanup & Filter Tools for a single-purpose page. Trim Whitespace handles leading and trailing spaces. Choose Remove Duplicate Lines for exact repeated-line removal with case and space options. Choose Remove HTML Tags to extract plain text from HTML.
Frequently asked questions
How do I clean up text with a preset?
Choose General Text, Documents, Email, AI / Markdown, Code, or Data. The selection replaces the current action checkboxes and updates Cleaned output.
Can I remove extra spaces without removing lines?
Yes. Select Collapse repeated spaces/tabs and leave Remove all empty lines unchecked. Trim leading whitespace per line and Trim trailing whitespace per line handle the edges of each line.
Does the Code preset change indentation?
The Code preset converts tab characters to the number of spaces set by Tab size and keeps leading spaces. It also trims trailing whitespace and collapses consecutive blank lines.
Is my text processed in the browser?
Yes. The page processes the input with browser-side JavaScript, and its code does not send the text in a network request.