Text Cleaner

Clean extra spaces, trim whitespace, and strip HTML tags from text. Useful for pasted content from web pages or documents.

About this tool

Text copied from web pages or PDFs often has extra spaces, line breaks, or leftover HTML tags. This tool normalizes spaces (multiple spaces or newlines become a single space), trims the start and end, and removes HTML tags so you get plain text ready for editing or analysis.

How to use

Paste the messy text into the input box.
Click Clean text.
Copy the cleaned result—no extra spaces or HTML.

When to use this tool

Cleaning text copied from web pages or PDFs that have extra spaces or line breaks.
Stripping HTML tags before pasting into plain-text editors or emails.
Normalizing whitespace for search indexes or data pipelines.
Preparing pasted content for further processing (e.g. word count, parsing).

Tips

The tool replaces any run of spaces or newlines with a single space and trims the start and end.
All HTML tags are removed; the text inside them is kept. For complex HTML, consider a dedicated HTML-to-text tool.

FAQ

Does it remove all HTML?: Yes. Any substring that looks like a tag (<...>) is removed. Attribute values and tag content (except tags) remain as text.
Will it fix smart quotes or special dashes?: No. This tool only normalizes spaces and strips HTML. For smart quotes or other characters, use a separate find-and-replace or encoding tool.