Text Formatter & Cleaner
Clean up messy text — remove extra spaces, blank lines, HTML tags, punctuation and more with one click.
What is Text Formatter & Cleaner?
A text formatter and cleaner is a utility that removes unwanted formatting, whitespace, and characters from raw text, turning messy copy into clean, consistent output. Whether you have pasted text from a PDF, copied content from a web page, or received data from an API, the result is often cluttered with extra spaces, inconsistent line breaks, HTML tags, or stray punctuation.
This tool provides a comprehensive set of cleaning operations you can apply individually or in combination. Remove extra whitespace by collapsing multiple consecutive spaces into one. Trim leading and trailing spaces from each line. Strip blank lines to produce compact paragraphs. Remove HTML tags to extract plain text from markup. Strip punctuation, numbers, or specific characters you do not need. Convert multiple line-break styles to a consistent format. Apply case transformations — uppercase, lowercase, title case, or sentence case — across the entire text.
Text cleaning is a frequent task for writers preparing copy for publication, developers processing user input, data analysts cleaning CSV exports, and content marketers repurposing text across channels. Having all these operations in a single tool, with a live preview of changes, eliminates the need to write custom scripts or chain together multiple utilities.
How to Use Text Formatter & Cleaner
- Paste your text
Enter any text into the input area — paste from a document, web page, PDF, or any other source.
- Choose cleaning operations
Select the operations you need: remove extra spaces, strip HTML tags, trim lines, remove blank lines, and more.
- Preview in real time
The cleaned output updates instantly as you toggle options, so you can see exactly what each operation does.
- Copy or download
Copy the cleaned text to your clipboard or download it as a plain .txt file.
Key Benefits
Combine multiple cleaning operations in a single pass instead of processing text through separate tools.
See the cleaned output update in real time as you toggle each option, with no need to re-run.
From removing HTML tags to normalising whitespace and applying case transforms, the tool covers the most common text cleaning needs.
Your text is processed entirely in your browser — nothing is stored or transmitted.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. The "Strip HTML" option removes all HTML tags while preserving the visible text content, including text inside attributes.
It replaces any sequence of two or more spaces, tabs, or other whitespace characters with a single space, giving you consistent spacing throughout.
Yes. The tool detects mixed line endings (CRLF and LF) and can normalise them to your preferred format.
Yes. You can convert text to uppercase, lowercase, title case (first letter of each word capitalised), or sentence case (first letter of each sentence capitalised).