Clean Text — Remove Formatting & AI Imprinting

Clean text and remove formatting instantly

This free text cleaner converts messy, formatted text into clean plain text. Paste anything — a ChatGPT answer, a Word document, a Google Doc, a PDF selection, or a copied web page — and it strips the hidden characters and formatting that break your layout: invisible zero-width and watermark characters, non-breaking spaces, smart quotes, em dashes, bullet glyphs, and Markdown syntax. The result is portable plain text you can drop anywhere.

How to use the text cleaner

1. Paste your text into the left box. Rich text is converted to plain text automatically.
2. Pick what to clean using the toggles — AI imprinting removal and deformatting are on by default.
3. Watch the cleaned output update live on the right, with a live count of hidden characters removed.
4. Click Copy cleaned text and paste it wherever you need clean plain text.

Common uses

• • Deformat text copied from Word, a PDF, or a website before pasting it into a CMS, email, or plain-text field.
• • Strip hidden AI watermark and zero-width characters from ChatGPT or AI-generated text.
• • Remove line breaks from a paragraph that got chopped into many short lines.
• • Fix smart quotes and em dashes that break code, CSV files, or plain-text systems.
• • Normalize fancy-font or full-width characters back to standard ASCII letters.

Private by design

Your text never leaves your device. All cleaning happens locally in your browser, so there's no upload, no server, and no logging — safe for confidential drafts and client work. Need more free utilities for business writing? Try the email signature generator or the business text message templates.