Text Character Cleaner

Paste text or drop a file, then highlight and replace problematic characters (invisible Unicode, quotes, punctuation and more). All processing runs locally.

Input text

Paste or type text Drag and drop a file, or click to upload Text files are read as UTF-8 in-browser

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Rendered preview with highlights

This preview renders your raw input with special characters highlighted. Use the controls below to decide what to show.

Unicode cleanup

Zero-width spaces + BOM Non-breaking / non-joiners Special Unicode (emoji / symbols) Control chars (newline, tab, etc.) Common Unicode troublemakers Includes NBSP, soft hyphen, line/paragraph separators, direction marks, and variation selectors.

Punctuation and quotes

Left/right quotation marks Punctuation marks Custom characters (space-delimited)

Custom characters are space-delimited and highlighted one-by-one.

Replacement rules

Rules are applied sequentially in order. Disable any rule with its checkbox. Add new rules for quick bulk cleanup and keep them for next sessions.

Find Current value: empty

Replace with Current value: empty

Enabled	Find	Replace with	Actions

Stats for nerds

Characters 0

Code points 0

Words 0

Lines 1 Empty text counts as 0 lines.

Unique characters 0

Whitespace 0

Character frequencies (top 10)

Cleaned output

Output