Plain Text Converter

What Is a Plain Text Converter?

A plain text converter strips all formatting from text — HTML tags, smart quotes, invisible Unicode characters, extra whitespace, and other artifacts that get added when you copy text from websites, Word documents, PDFs, or AI tools like ChatGPT.

Remove Invisible Characters

Text copied from websites and AI tools often contains hidden Unicode characters like zero-width spaces, byte order marks (BOM), non-breaking spaces, and soft hyphens. These invisible characters can break code, cause search mismatches, and create bugs that are nearly impossible to debug visually.

Common Use Cases

• Cleaning text copied from web pages or Google Docs
• Removing HTML tags from email templates
• Stripping formatting from AI-generated text
• Preparing clean text for database imports
• Converting rich text to plain text for plain-text email
• Removing smart quotes before pasting into code editors
• Cleaning PDF-extracted text

What This Tool Removes

• HTML tags (<p>, <strong>, etc.)
• Zero-width characters (U+200B, U+200C, U+200D, U+FEFF)
• Smart quotes and typographic dashes
• Extra spaces and tabs
• Emojis (optional)
• URLs and email addresses (optional)
• Non-ASCII characters (optional)
• Accents and diacritics (optional)

FAQ

Is my text sent to a server?

No. All processing happens locally in your browser. Your text never leaves your device.