Operations
Whitespace
Trim each line — strips leading and trailing spaces from every line
Remove extra spaces — collapses multiple consecutive spaces to one
Remove blank lines — strips empty lines completely
Tabs → spaces — converts tab characters to 4 spaces
Characters
Fix smart quotes — converts curly quotes to straight quotes
Em dash → hyphen — converts — and – to -
Ellipsis char — converts … to ...
Remove zero-width chars — removes invisible Unicode (common in copy-pasted text)
Remove non-ASCII — strips everything above ASCII 126
Lines
Sort lines A→Z — alphabetical sort
Remove duplicate lines — case-insensitive deduplication
Reverse line order — flips the order of all lines
Number each line — prepends 1. 2. 3. to each line
Case
Apply directly to the input: lowercase, UPPERCASE, Title Case, Sentence case.
Quick presets
Preset Enables
Clean PDF text Trim, extra spaces, smart quotes, em dashes, ellipsis, zero-width
Clean Word/Doc All of the above + remove blank lines + tabs to spaces
Clean email Trim, extra spaces, blank lines, smart quotes, zero-width
Plain text only Smart quotes, em dashes, ellipsis, zero-width, non-ASCII
Keyboard shortcut
Shortcut Action
Ctrl /Cmd + Enter Clean text
Use Use as input to move the cleaned output back into the input for a second pass — useful for chaining multiple cleaning operations.
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