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# Text Cleaner: Strip invisible characters, odd spacing and…

HTML: [Text Cleaner: Strip invisible characters, odd spacing and…](https://openvibe.tools/tool/clean)

# Text Cleaner

Fix text pasted from Word, PDFs and web pages: remove zero-width and control characters, collapse extra spaces and line breaks, straighten curly quotes and strip Zalgo marks.

- **Limits** No daily limit on the page
- **Where it runs** Runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
- **Cost** Free, with the limits above. No account needed.

 [Open Text Cleaner](https://clean.openvibe.tools/) 

## Where to find it

Every address below opens the same tool. The first address is the one to bookmark and share.

- [clean.openvibe.tools](https://clean.openvibe.tools/)Primary

## People also call this

**What it's for:** Strip invisible characters, odd spacing and smart quotes.

- text cleaner
- remove invisible characters
- remove extra spaces
- remove line breaks
- strip formatting
- clean text

## Use it from code

- `POST https://openvibe.tools/api/v1/tools/clean/run`
- No account needed: anonymous calls run on the lowest quota tier; a token with `tools.tool.run` raises it.
- It answers with the result.

~~~~
curl -X POST https://openvibe.tools/api/v1/tools/clean/run \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"input":{"text":"a​  “b”"}}'
~~~~

Inputs: [JSON Schema](/api/v1/tools/clean/schema) · [OpenAPI](/api/v1/openapi.json) · from JavaScript: `tools.run("clean", …)` in [openvibe-sdk](https://github.com/OpenVibers/OpenVibe.SDK) · [How the API works](/developers)

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