---
title: "Text cleaner — free, runs in your browser"
description: "Strip emojis, numbers, punctuation, extra spaces or line breaks from pasted text. Free, no sign-up, and nothing you enter leaves your browser."
url: https://atoneplace.net/tools/text-cleaner/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Text cleaner

Strip emojis, numbers, punctuation, extra spaces or line breaks from pasted text.

## How it works

Removes whatever you do not want from pasted text: emojis, numbers, punctuation, extra whitespace, line breaks, or non-ASCII characters. Several can be applied at once.

Emoji removal is harder than it looks, and most simple implementations get it wrong. Many emoji are sequences rather than single characters — a flag is two regional indicator symbols, and a family emoji can be five code points joined by zero-width joiners. Deleting characters one at a time leaves fragments behind. This uses Unicode property escapes to match whole grapheme clusters.

The invisible-character option is the one people need without knowing it. Text copied from documents and web pages routinely carries zero-width spaces, non-breaking spaces and soft hyphens that look like nothing, break search and sorting, and are almost impossible to find by eye.

> This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to a server, logged or stored, and the page keeps working with the network disconnected.

## Common questions

### Why does removing emoji leave strange characters?

Because many emoji are multi-character sequences joined by zero-width joiners. Deleting one character at a time leaves the joiners and fragments behind.

### What are invisible characters and why remove them?

Zero-width spaces, non-breaking spaces and soft hyphens picked up when copying from documents. They look like nothing but break search, sorting and comparison.

## Related pages

- [Word and character counter](https://atoneplace.net/tools/word-counter/)
- [Typing speed test](https://atoneplace.net/tools/typing-speed-test/)
- [Remove duplicate lines](https://atoneplace.net/tools/remove-duplicate-lines/)
- [Sort lines alphabetically](https://atoneplace.net/tools/sort-lines/)
- [JSON formatter and validator](https://atoneplace.net/tools/json-formatter/)
- [Text compare](https://atoneplace.net/tools/text-diff/)
- [Regex tester](https://atoneplace.net/tools/regex-tester/)
- [Case converter](https://atoneplace.net/tools/case-converter/)
- [Remove empty lines](https://atoneplace.net/tools/remove-empty-lines/)
- [Find and replace](https://atoneplace.net/tools/find-and-replace/)

## Sources

- Calculated on this page — At One Place (/about/)