Text Cleaner

Text copied out of a PDF or a web page carries invisible characters, spaces that look normal but are not, and line breaks in the middle of sentences. This clears all of it in one pass and tells you how many of each it removed.

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What to clean

Remove invisible charactersZero-width spaces, BOM and the like — they inflate counts and break searchOdd spaces to normal spacesCharacters that look like a space but are not (NBSP and friends)Collapse repeated spacesTwo or more spaces become oneTrim each lineReduce consecutive blank linesThree or more blank lines become oneJoin broken linesCopying from a PDF breaks lines mid-sentenceCurly quotes to straight quotes“ ” ‘ ’ → " 'Strip HTML tagsRemoves tags like <p>

Cleaned text

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What this tool does

Remove invisible characters and odd spaces
Join line breaks inside sentences
Collapse repeated spaces and blank lines
Smart quotes to straight quotes

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