Text Cleaner

PDFs store each line of a page separately, so copying keeps a line break wherever the line ended on the page. Turn on Remove line breaks with Keep paragraphs ticked: lines inside a paragraph are joined with a space, and the blank lines between paragraphs stay.

Zero-width spaces, byte order marks, soft hyphens, direction marks and control characters take up no space on screen but are still part of the text. They can break search, make two identical-looking words different, push you over a character limit or cause errors in code and spreadsheets. The tool also turns non-breaking and other unusual spaces into normal spaces. Joiners inside emoji such as family emoji are kept.

Top to bottom, as listed. For example, invisible characters and HTML tags are removed before spaces are collapsed, and duplicates are removed before lines are sorted and numbered. The order is fixed so the same settings always give the same result.

It removes accents and diacritics from Latin, Greek and Cyrillic letters (é becomes e, ñ becomes n, ø becomes o, ß becomes ss). Marks that are part of other scripts, such as Hindi vowel signs or Arabic vowel marks, are left alone because removing them would change the words.

Two lines are duplicates when they match after trimming spaces at the start and end. The first copy is kept in its place and later copies are removed. Tick Ignore case to treat Apple and apple as the same line. Empty lines are never removed by this step.

Yes. All steps run in a single pass each and have been built to handle several megabytes. With very long text, the result updates a moment after you stop typing.

No. Cleaning happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded or stored.