Text Cleaner
Paste messy text and pick which cleanup rules to apply — trim, collapse spaces, remove blank lines, strip punctuation, or flatten to plain ASCII.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does each cleanup option do?
Trim removes leading/trailing spaces per line. Collapse spaces turns repeated spaces/tabs into a single space. Remove blank lines drops empty lines entirely. Strip punctuation removes non-word, non-whitespace characters. Plain ASCII strips accents (é → e) and any remaining non-ASCII characters.
Can I combine multiple cleanup options at once?
Yes — toggle any combination of checkboxes and the output updates live, applying them in sequence (trim, then collapse, then blank-line removal, then punctuation, then ASCII conversion).
Why would I need to convert text to plain ASCII?
Some legacy systems, filenames, or data imports don't handle accented/non-Latin characters well — converting to plain ASCII (café → cafe) avoids encoding issues in those cases.
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