TextCleanr: Clean Text Converter

Convert copied, pasted or formatted text to clean plain text. Removes styles, symbols, hidden characters, and AI fingerprints.

TextCleanr: Clean Text Converter (formerly PlainTextify) Paste messy, formatted, or AI-generated text in - get clean plain text out. One click. No sign-up. No data leaves your browser. Whether you're cleaning ChatGPT output, stripping Word formatting, removing HTML tags from a web page copy, or clearing hidden characters from a PDF paste - TextCleanr handles it instantly. It strips inline styles, bold, italics, hyperlinks, span tags, div wrappers, and any other HTML markup down to pure plain text. Toggle HTML cleaning on or off in settings depending on your needs. Use it as a quick popup for fast cleaning, or open Extended Mode as a full tab-based text cleaning app with live stats, highlighting, and resizable text areas. It's a standalone text cleaning tool that lives in your browser. NEW IN VERSION 1.1 - Extended Mode: open TextCleanr as a full-page app in its own tab - clean any text from any source, not just web pages - Text highlighting shows exactly what will be changed before you clean - Live character, word, and line statistics for input and output - Custom replacement rules with full regex support - Configurable HTML tag stripping - Resizable text areas - handle large documents comfortably - Improved smart quote, dash, and compound word handling - Reduced permissions - no browsing data access required - Lighter, faster, more reliable WHY TEXTCLEANR? AI-generated content from ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Claude carries invisible formatting, unusual spacing, and subtle markers. Rich text from Word, Google Docs, and web pages brings fonts, styles, and hidden characters that break your layout when pasted. TextCleanr strips all of it. What you get is clean plain text that pastes safely into any platform. WHAT IT REMOVES - Smart quotes, curly quotes, em dashes, ellipses, and non-ASCII symbols - Hidden characters, zero-width spaces, non-breaking spaces (NBSP), and soft line breaks - Fonts, colours, bold, italics, and hyperlinks - Typographic fingerprints left behind by AI writing tools - HTML tags: strips p, div, span, strong, em, a, and all other tags from rich text, PDF, and Word sources (easily toggle HTML cleaning on or off in settings) - Multiple spaces, inconsistent whitespace, and mixed line endings (CRLF/LF) - Accented characters, fullwidth characters, and decorative symbols - Invisible Unicode control characters that break forms, code, and database queries COMMON PROBLEMS IT SOLVES - Pasting from PDFs brings hidden characters, soft hyphens, and encoding artefacts - TextCleanr strips them for clean text - Code copied from Slack, Stack Overflow, or blogs has curly quotes that break compilation - TextCleanr converts them to straight quotes - Excel or Google Sheets data has invisible characters and encoding issues that cause VLOOKUP failures and SQL mismatches - TextCleanr strips them - Text pasted into web forms triggers "invalid email" or "invalid phone number" errors from hidden characters - TextCleanr removes them - WordPress and CMS editors inject span tags, inline styles, and Microsoft Office markup when pasting from Word - TextCleanr strips all HTML - AI-generated text includes unusual formatting, special dashes, and invisible markers - TextCleanr cleans them all TWO WAYS TO CLEAN Quick Mode (popup): Click the TextCleanr icon, paste your text, copy the cleaned result. Done in seconds. Perfect for quick clipboard cleaning while you work. Extended Mode (full tab): Open TextCleanr as a standalone app in its own browser tab. Resizable text areas, live character/word/line stats, real-time highlighting of every character that will change. Ideal for cleaning longer documents, articles, AI-generated drafts, or batch work. Both modes: 1. Paste your text - formatting, AI output, HTML, anything 2. See replaceable characters highlighted instantly 3. Click copy - clean plain text is on your clipboard 4. Paste anywhere: email, CMS, forms, code editor No configuration needed. Works out of the box. Power users can customise every replacement rule from the settings page. WHO USES TEXTCLEANR - Writers and editors: Clean AI drafts before submitting to publishers - Students: Paste into coursework without formatting glitches - Developers: Strip artefacts from generated code before committing - Recruiters and HR: Remove AI formatting from cover letters and CVs - Customer support: Clean AI-generated replies before sending - Content creators: Tidy AI-assisted drafts before publishing - Legal and compliance: Remove formatting inconsistencies from documents PRIVATE AND SECURE Your text never leaves your browser. No API calls, no cloud processing, no tracking, no logins. Everything runs locally. TextCleanr requires no special permissions - just storage for your settings. FEATURES - Quick popup mode for fast clipboard cleaning - Extended tab mode - a full standalone text cleaning app in your browser - Resizable text areas for large documents - Real-time text highlighting of replaceable characters - Live character, word, and line statistics - One-click clean and copy - Customisable replacement rules with regex support - HTML tag stripping with on/off toggle - Smart compound word protection (hyphens preserved) - Fullwidth character conversion - Configurable settings page - Lightweight (under 80KB) - Works on any website or text field FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: Does TextCleanr send my text to a server? A: No. All processing happens locally in your browser. Your text is never uploaded or stored. Q: Can I customise what gets replaced? A: Yes. Open Settings to add, edit, or remove replacement rules. Regex patterns are fully supported. Q: Does it work with AI-generated text? A: Yes. TextCleanr removes smart quotes, unusual dashes, invisible spacing, and other formatting that AI tools insert. Q: What happened to PlainTextify? A: PlainTextify has been rebranded to TextCleanr with the v1.1 release. Same developer, same extension, better name.