Clipboard Text Cleaner
Clean up text copied from documents or webpages by removing invisible characters, converting smart quotes, and normalizing line endings.
Cleaned text
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How to use Clipboard Text Cleaner
- 1Paste messy text copied from PDFs, Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or web pages.
- 2Review the automatically sanitized plain text in the output panel.
- 3Copy the sanitized text into your code editor, terminal, or CMS.
Key features
Invisible Character Removal
Strips zero-width spaces (\u200B), zero-width joiners (\u200D), and BOM (\uFEFF).
Smart Quote Normalization
Converts typographic curly quotes (“ ” ‘ ’) to straight ASCII quotes (' and ").
Line Ending Standardization
Normalizes inconsistent carriage returns (\r\n and \r) to standard line breaks (\n).
Whitespace Trimming
Trims trailing whitespace from each line while preserving document structure.
Examples & use cases
Sanitizing Copied Word Processor Text
Replaces curly quotes with standard ASCII quotes and strips hidden characters.
“Hello World” with smart quotes and zero-width spaces
"Hello World" with smart quotes and zero-width spaces
Normalizing Mixed Line Endings
Converts mixed OS line separators to consistent newline characters.
Line 1 Line 2 Line 3
Line 1 Line 2 Line 3
Frequently asked questions
Helpful guides & tutorials
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