🧹 Text Cleaner

Clean, format, and transform text with 15+ options. Remove extra spaces, strip HTML, deduplicate lines, sort, and more — instantly.

⚙️ Cleaning Options (check to apply)
📊 Statistics
INPUT
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OUTPUT
Chars: 0 Words: 0 Lines: 0

What is the Text Cleaner?

The Text Cleaner is a powerful, free browser-based tool that helps you sanitise, format, and transform text with over 15 individual operations. Whether you're a writer cleaning up a copy-pasted document, a developer processing data, an SEO specialist normalising content, or a student formatting notes, this tool lets you combine multiple cleaning operations in any combination and see the result instantly.

Unlike simple find-and-replace tools, the Text Cleaner applies operations in a logical sequence — for example, HTML stripping happens before special character removal, and duplicate removal happens after sorting so that sorting groups duplicates together. All processing happens entirely in your browser with no data ever leaving your device.

How to Use

  1. Paste or type your text into the Input Text area on the left.
  2. Check any combination of the 15 cleaning options — the output updates immediately for each change.
  3. Click Apply All to enable every cleaning option at once, or Reset Options to uncheck all.
  4. Review the cleaned result in the output area on the right. Use the stats bar to compare character, word, and line counts.
  5. Click Copy to copy the output to your clipboard, Download .txt to save it, or Swap to send the output back to the input for further processing.

Key Features

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15+ Cleaning Options

From basic trimming to HTML stripping, line sorting, deduplication, and text reversal — all in one place.

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Real-time Results

Output updates instantly as you type or toggle options — no need to click a process button each time.

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Live Statistics

See character, word, and line counts for both input and output side by side to measure the impact of cleaning.

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Swap & Chain

Send output back to input with one click to chain multiple rounds of cleaning with different option sets.

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Download as TXT

Export your cleaned text directly as a .txt file — useful for saving cleaned data, lists, or formatted documents.

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100% Private

All text processing happens in your browser. Nothing is sent to any server — your text stays yours.

Frequently Asked Questions

❓ In what order are the cleaning operations applied?
Operations are applied in the order listed: first trimming, then extra space removal, blank line handling, line joining, HTML stripping, special character removal, number/punctuation removal, duplicate removal, sorting, line numbering, text reversal, and finally line reversal. This order ensures that operations complement each other — for instance, sorting before deduplication groups identical lines together so duplicates can be efficiently removed.
❓ What does "Strip HTML tags" do exactly?
The strip HTML option uses a regular expression to remove all content between < and > angle brackets (i.e., any HTML or XML tag). It does not decode HTML entities like &amp; or &nbsp;. If you also need entities decoded, enable "Remove special characters" which will remove the remaining ampersand-based sequences.
❓ What does "Remove special characters" keep?
This option keeps only letters (A–Z, a–z), digits (0–9), spaces, and basic punctuation (. , ! ? ' " - _). All other characters — including symbols, emoji, mathematical operators, currency signs, and non-ASCII characters — are removed. If you need to keep specific characters, use this option as a starting point and then adjust manually.
❓ Can I use Sort A-Z and Remove Duplicates together?
Yes, and it works very well together. The tool applies sorting before duplicate removal in its internal pipeline, so enabling both will first sort all lines alphabetically and then remove any consecutive duplicate lines. This is the most efficient way to produce a unique, sorted list from raw data.
❓ Is there a character limit for the input text?
There is no hard character limit — the tool is constrained only by your browser's available memory. In practice, texts up to several million characters work fine. For very large texts (logs, datasets), the tool remains fast because all operations use native JavaScript string methods and array operations rather than DOM manipulation.