Micro-Formatter: Clean Pasted Text & Remove Formatting — Text Cleaner

Clean copied text: remove formatting, smart quotes and line breaks, reflow PDF text, copy plain text. Offline, free, no account.

Micro-Formatter is a small, offline text cleaner for the text you copy every day — and the text that arrives broken. If you write or edit for a living, you know the paste problem. Copy a paragraph out of a PDF and every line is hard-wrapped in the middle of a sentence. Copy from an AI chat and the text carries hidden characters and curly quotes into your CMS. Copy a list out of a document and the bullets arrive as stray characters or run together into one line. Micro-Formatter gives you clean text in one click, on the page you are already reading. REFLOW HARD-WRAPPED TEXT — THE PART OTHER CLEANERS SKIP Most "paste as plain text" tools only strip styling; the paragraph shape stays broken. Paste text copied from a PDF, a slide export, or an AI chat and press "Reflow / Clean pasted text": paragraphs are detected by blank lines and their hard-wrapped lines are joined back into flowing sentences. Words broken across a line ("re- / flow") are rejoined without the stray hyphen, and no double space is left behind. Bullet and numbered lists keep their own lines, their indentation, and their order. A wrapped list item is folded back into its item, and items are never merged into each other — the usual failure mode of naive whitespace collapsing. CLEAN COPIED TEXT, IN ONE PASS "Strip formatting" is the one-click way to remove formatting from copied text. It takes out hidden formatting — invisible characters, extra spaces and tabs, stray blank lines — and turns smart quotes and long dashes back into plain ASCII, unless you would rather keep your typography (Settings → Preserve typographic punctuation). Nothing is rewritten, reworded, or sent anywhere: you get clean text that still says exactly what you wrote. CASE, WHITESPACE AND SLUGS lowercase · UPPERCASE · Title Case · Sentence case · Trim whitespace · Normalize spaces · Slugify. Every transform works on a copy of your text and never touches the surrounding page. LISTS AND MARKDOWN Bullets → Markdown, Markdown → Bullets, Numbers → Bullets, and Bullets → Numbers (renumbered 1., 2., 3. …). Only lines that start with a list marker are changed; indentation and blank lines survive. WORD COUNTER, CHARACTER COUNT AND READING TIME Live word counter, character count, and estimated reading time (200 words per minute) for the text you selected or pasted. COPY IT, OR PUT IT BACK "Copy to Clipboard" puts the result anywhere as plain text. "Replace in Page" writes the result over your original selection when it is safe to do so. THREE WAYS TO OPEN IT • Click the toolbar icon • Select text, right-click, choose "Format selected text" • Press Alt+Shift+F SMART FALLBACK — WHEN THE PAGE SAYS NO In-place replacement works on ordinary pages. On Chrome's built-in PDF viewer, browser pages (chrome://), the Chrome Web Store, and canvas-based editors such as Google Docs or WhatsApp Web, the page will not accept a direct replacement. Instead of silently doing nothing — or forcing its way into a page that has blocked editing — Micro-Formatter tells you, keeps the cleaned result in the popup, and leaves it one click from your clipboard. Pasting a PDF selection into the popup and pressing "Reflow" is the exact fix for the most common complaint about extensions in this category. YOUR TEXT STAYS WITH YOU No account. No sign-in. No API key. No analytics. No quota. No AI model is involved: every transform is a documented string operation that runs inside the extension. Nothing you select, paste, or format is uploaded anywhere; the extension works offline and makes no network requests at all. It never reads your clipboard — "Copy to Clipboard" only writes to it, when you click the button. The only things it remembers between sessions are two preferences: whether you dismissed the Quick Start hint, and whether to preserve typographic punctuation. WHO IT IS FOR Copywriters, editors, content marketers, technical writers, and support writers — anyone who moves text between a source (PDF, Google Docs, an AI chat, email) and a destination (a CMS, Notion, a help center, a pull request). It is equally handy for students and researchers cleaning quotes out of papers, and for resumes, cover letters, and application forms, where stray line breaks and smart quotes show up at the worst possible moment. WHY NOT JUST "PASTE AS PLAIN TEXT"? If all you need is a clean copy of what you copied, your browser's plain-text paste is enough. But it cannot rebuild paragraphs, rejoin hyphenated line breaks, keep a wrapped bullet as one item, or turn a numbered list into Markdown. Micro-Formatter does those, and it does not try to bypass a site's copy protection to get the text: it works with the selection you own. PRIVACY IN ONE LINE Micro-Formatter reads only the text you explicitly select or paste, processes it locally on your device, and sends nothing over the network. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Google. Chrome is a trademark of Google LLC.