Text Cleaner
Strip HTML tags, collapse redundant whitespace, remove duplicate empty lines, and normalize line breaks.
What is the Text Cleaner?
Sanitize and clean up untidy text copied from PDFs, scanned documents, email threads, or rich-text formatters. It gives you surgical control over which formatting artifacts to remove: strip HTML tags, collapse repeated spaces into single spaces, eliminate empty blank lines, and normalize diverse operating system line endings.
How to Use This Tool
- Paste your untidy text into the dirty text editor.
- Select which cleanup filters you want to activate using the checkboxes.
- The cleaned text is immediately reflected in the output pane.
- Click "Copy Cleaned" to copy your tidy text directly to your clipboard.
Examples & Use Cases
PDF Text with Extra Spaces & Linebreaks
This is a paragraph copied from a PDF
with annoying multiple blank lines and trailing space.
Raw HTML to Clean Plain Text
<h1>Title</h1><p>Here is some <strong>bold</strong> and <em>italic</em> copy.</p>
Formula & Technical Specifications
Line endings (CRLF \r\n, CR \r, LF \n) are normalized to standard Unix LF (\n). Regular expressions safely strip HTML tags without executing scripts, and consecutive space characters are collapsed with [^\S\n]+ matching.
Limitations, Edge Cases & Best Practices
Stripping HTML tags removes structural formatting tags like tables and lists, converting content into plain text.
Privacy & Client-Side Execution
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this tool preserve intentional paragraphs?
Yes. Consecutive blank lines are reduced to single clean paragraph breaks rather than merging all paragraphs into a giant unreadable block.