Clean Text

Clean Text

Clean Text is a free text cleaning tool that can remove unwanted formatting, special characters, duplicates, and empty lines from text. It has an easy-to-use interface for quickly cleaning text copied from various sources.
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Clean Text: Free Text Cleaning Tool

Remove unwanted formatting, special characters, duplicates and empty lines from text with our easy-to-use interface

What is Clean Text?

Clean Text is a powerful yet simple text cleaning utility. It allows you to quickly remove unwanted formatting, special characters, duplicates, empty lines, and spaces from text that has been copied from various sources such as PDFs, emails, webpages, and more.

Some key features of Clean Text include:

  • Strip all text formatting such as bold, italics, underline, text color, etc.
  • Remove duplicate lines of text
  • Delete empty lines
  • Replace or remove specified characters or strings
  • Trim extra whitespace and spaces
  • Fix mojibake characters and encoding issues
  • Convert text to uppercase, lowercase, title case

Clean Text has an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. Simply copy and paste your text into the input box, customize the cleaning options based on your needs, and get perfectly cleaned text ready for re-use in just a few clicks. The cleaned text can then be copied out or exported to a .txt file.

As a light-weight app with no ads or clutter, Clean Text is great for quick everyday text cleaning tasks. It helps prepare text for use in various applications such as spreadsheets, presentations, webpages, and more by removing unwanted formatting and cleaning the text. The batch processing features also make it suitable for power users and cleaning large text documents.

Clean Text Features

Features

  1. Remove formatting
  2. Remove empty lines
  3. Remove duplicate lines
  4. Remove special characters
  5. Batch process multiple files
  6. Regex search and replace
  7. Undo changes
  8. Save cleaned text to file

Pricing

  • Free
  • Open Source

Pros

Free and open source

Simple and easy to use interface

Handles large text files quickly

Cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux)

Actively developed and maintained

Cons

Limited to basic text cleaning functions

No advanced features like language detection

Requires some regex knowledge for advanced use cases


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