Clipboard Text Cleaner
Strip the invisible characters that come with text copied from documents and web pages.
Your result will appear here as soon as you add some input.
How to use it
- 1Paste the text that is misbehaving.
- 2The cleaned version and a list of what was found appear below.
- 3Copy the result back out.
About the Clipboard Text Cleaner
Text copied from a word processor or a web page arrives with passengers: non-breaking spaces that look like spaces but never wrap and never match a search, zero-width characters that are entirely invisible, and curly quotes and long dashes that break code and CSV parsing.
Each of those is reported specifically, so you know what was in there rather than just getting different text back.
This is the fix for "my search finds nothing even though the text is right there" and for a CSV that one parser reads and another refuses.
Questions people ask
Is any of this information sent anywhere?
No. Every value is read from your browser by JavaScript running in this page and displayed locally. Nothing is transmitted, logged or stored.
Is it free, and do I need an account?
Yes, it is free, and there is no account, no sign-up and no watermark on the result. The project is funded by optional donations.