Text Cleaner

Text Cleaner - Clean and Format Text Online

This text cleaner tool helps you clean messy text by removing unwanted elements like HTML tags, special characters, extra whitespace, URLs, emails, and numbers. It's perfect for cleaning text copied from websites, word processors, PDFs, or any source that includes formatting or unwanted characters. Simply paste your text, select the cleaning options you need, and get clean, formatted text instantly.

What is a Text Cleaner?

A text cleaner is a tool that removes unwanted characters, formatting, and elements from text to make it clean and readable. It can remove:

- HTML tags like <div>, <p>, <span>, <a>, etc.
- Special characters and symbols
- Extra whitespace (multiple spaces, tabs, line breaks)
- Empty lines
- URLs and links
- Email addresses
- Numbers
- HTML entities like &nbsp;, &lt;, &gt;

This is especially useful when copying text from websites, documents, or emails that contain unwanted formatting or code.

When should I use a Text Cleaner?

You should use a text cleaner when:

- Copying text from websites that includes HTML code
- Pasting content from Word documents with extra formatting
- Cleaning up text from PDFs with weird spacing
- Removing URLs and links from content
- Getting rid of email addresses in text
- Cleaning scraped data or web content
- Preparing text for plain text editors
- Removing special characters from copied text
- Formatting text before uploading to databases
- Cleaning text for analysis or processing

Basically, any time you have messy text that needs cleaning!

What does 'Remove HTML tags' do?

The 'Remove HTML tags' option strips all HTML markup from your text, including:

- Opening and closing tags: <div>, </div>, <p>, </p>
- Self-closing tags: <br/>, <img/>
- Tags with attributes: <a href="...">...</a>
- Style and script tags: <style>, <script>
- All other HTML elements

For example, the text "<p>Hello <strong>World</strong></p>" becomes "Hello World".

This is the most commonly used option when copying text from web pages.

What are special characters and should I remove them?

Special characters are non-alphanumeric symbols like @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, etc. The 'Remove special characters' option keeps only:

- Letters (A-Z, a-z)
- Numbers (0-9)
- Spaces
- Basic punctuation: period (.), comma (,), exclamation (!), question (?), hyphen (-), apostrophe ('), quotation marks (")

You should remove special characters when:
- You want clean, plain text
- Preparing text for systems that don't support special characters
- Cleaning text for data processing
- Removing emoji, symbols, and unusual characters

Don't remove them if you need to preserve punctuation beyond the basics or if special symbols are important to your content.

What's the difference between 'Remove empty lines' and 'Trim lines'?

These are two different cleaning operations:

'Remove empty lines' deletes lines that contain no text (completely blank lines).
Example:
Before:
"Line 1


Line 2"
After:
"Line 1
Line 2"

'Trim lines' removes spaces and tabs from the beginning and end of each line, but keeps the lines themselves.
Example:
Before:
" Line 1
Line 2 "
After:
"Line 1
Line 2"

You can use both together for maximum cleaning!

What are HTML entities and how do I decode them?

HTML entities are special codes used in HTML to represent characters that have special meaning or can't be typed directly. Common examples:

- &nbsp; = non-breaking space
- &lt; = less than (<)
- &gt; = greater than (>)
- &amp; = ampersand (&)
- &quot; = quotation mark (")
- &apos; = apostrophe (')

The 'Decode HTML entities' option converts these codes back to their actual characters.

For example: "Hello&nbsp;World&lt;test&gt;" becomes "Hello World<test>"

Use this when copying text from HTML source code or when you see strange codes like &nbsp; in your text.

How do I get the best results?

For best results, follow these tips:

1. Start with common options: 'Remove HTML tags' and 'Remove extra whitespace' are enabled by default and work for most cases.

2. Add more options as needed: If you see URLs, emails, or special characters you want to remove, enable those options.

3. Order matters: The tool applies cleaning operations in a specific order for optimal results. You don't need to worry about the order - it's handled automatically.

4. Use 'Select all' for maximum cleaning: If you want the cleanest possible text, click 'Select all' to enable all options.

5. Preview before using: Always check the cleaned text to make sure you haven't removed something important.

6. Adjust options: If too much or too little was removed, adjust the options and click 'Clean' again.

Common Use Cases

• Cleaning text copied from websites that includes HTML code and formatting
• Removing formatting from Word or Google Docs when pasting to plain text editors
• Cleaning scraped web content for data analysis
• Preparing text for databases or APIs that don't support special characters
• Removing URLs and links from blog posts or articles
• Cleaning email content by removing addresses and links
• Formatting text from PDFs that have weird spacing and line breaks
• Removing numbers from text (useful for text analysis)
• Converting HTML source code to readable text
• Cleaning text before translation or processing
• Removing special characters for filename-safe text
• Preparing text for social media posts by removing extra whitespace