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Text cleanup

Clipboard Cleaner

Remove invisible characters, normalize whitespace and compare the text before and after, before you paste it into templates, code or admin tools.

Press Ctrl V outside a text field to paste, or Ctrl Shift C to copy the clean text. You can also drop a text file on the input.

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Original text

Cleaned text

Removed or replaced characters

What does this tool clean? ?

  • Non-breaking spaces (U+00A0), common when copying from web pages
  • Zero-width characters: invisible joiners and non-joiners (U+200B, U+200C, U+200D, U+FEFF)
  • Soft hyphens (U+00AD), hidden hyphenation hints
  • Various space types: em and en spaces, thin, hair and figure spaces
  • Directional marks: left-to-right and right-to-left markers
  • Line separators: paragraph and line separator characters
  • Control characters: hidden control codes that can break text processing
  • Smart quotes, converted to standard ASCII quotes