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FreeToolConvert

Clipboard Cleaner & Formatter

Clean text pasted from PDFs, websites, emails and Word: remove hidden formatting, HTML tags, extra spaces, broken line breaks, smart quotes, bullets and emoji.

In-browser · no upload

Runs entirely in your browser. Your files and text are not uploaded to our servers.

To clean up copied text, paste it on the left; the clean version appears on the right. By default the tool removes HTML tags and invisible characters, fixes extra spaces and rejoins lines broken in the middle of sentences — the typical mess when copying from a PDF.

How to use the Clipboard Cleaner & Formatter

  1. 1

    Paste messy text

  2. 2

    Choose clean-up options

  3. 3

    Copy the clean text

Features

  • Fixes PDF line breaks

    Rejoins broken lines while keeping paragraphs.

  • Removes invisible characters

    Zero-width spaces and non-breaking spaces.

  • Straightens quotes

    Curly quotes and long dashes to plain ASCII.

When to use it

  • Copying text from a PDF into an email or form.
  • Pasting web content into a CMS without hidden styles.
  • Preparing text for data entry or coding.

Privacy and file handling

Where it runs
Runs in your browser

Runs entirely in your browser. Your files and text are not uploaded to our servers.

Frequently asked questions

Why does text from PDFs have broken lines?

PDFs store each line separately. “Rejoin broken lines” merges lines within a paragraph but keeps blank-line paragraph breaks.

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