Text Cleaner

Quickly clean up and format your text by removing unnecessary spaces, lines, characters, and more.

Options

Select Preset

Whitespace

Characters

Clean-Up (HTML/Links)

Text Formatting

Letter Case

Quotes

Writing

Advanced Trim

chars from left
chars from right

What is Dely Text Cleaner?

Dely Text Cleaner is a powerful, all-in-one text formatting and sanitization tool. It's designed to fix all common text issues in a single click, from removing extra spaces and empty lines to stripping HTML tags, fixing quotes, and removing duplicate lines.

This is one of the most comprehensive text cleaners online, 100% free, and 100% private.

A Full Formatting Workstation

Why use 10 different tools when you can use one? This tool's power comes from its chainable operations: simply check all the boxes for the operations you need, and run them all at once.

  • 100% Free & Private: No features are locked. All processing, from file import to complex formatting, happens securely in your browser.
  • Full File Workflow: Import your text directly from .docx, .pdf, .txt, or .md files.
  • Export Your Result: Save your cleaned-up text to a .txt file with one click.
  • Built-in Editor: Includes Find & Replace, Undo/Redo, Copy, Paste, and Clear for maximum convenience.

Comprehensive Cleaning Operations

Whitespace Control

  • Trim leading/trailing spaces (per line or entire text).
  • Convert double spaces to single.
  • Convert double empty lines to single.
  • Remove all empty lines.
  • Convert newlines to spaces (or remove them entirely).

Character Sanitization

  • Remove all punctuation.
  • Remove all emojis.
  • Remove letter accents (diacritics) (e.g., é -> e).
  • Remove all non-alphanumeric or non-ASCII characters.

Web & Code Cleaning

  • Strip all HTML Tags (e.g., <p>Text</p> -> Text).
  • Remove all web URLs and email addresses.
  • Decode HTML entities (e.g., &lt; -> <).
  • Decode URL text (e.g., %20 -> ).
  • Remove BBCode tags.

Professional Writing & Formatting

  • Change Case: Instantly convert text to UPPERCASE, lowercase, Sentence case, or Capitalize Words.
  • Fix Quotes: Convert "Smart" curly quotes (from Word) to "Straight" quotes (for code), and vice-versa.
  • Remove Duplicate Lines: Instantly dedupe any list.
  • Remove Repeating Words: Fixes common typos like the the.
  • Fix Punctuation Spacing: Ensures one space after commas/periods.
  • Advanced Truncate: Remove a specific number of characters from the left or right side of your text.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What makes this different from other text cleaners?

Most tools do one thing. You have one tool to remove HTML tags, another to remove duplicate lines, and a third to fix spacing. This is an all-in-one workstation. You can check 10 different operations and run them all in a single click, saving you time and effort.

What specific problems does this solve?

  • For Writers & Editors: Cleaning up messy text copied from Microsoft Word, PDFs, or emails, especially fixing "smart quotes" and extra spaces.
  • For Programmers: Stripping HTML tags, decoding URLs, cleaning up log files, or formatting data.
  • For Data Analysts: Sanitizing user-generated text from a spreadsheet (removing emojis, non-alphanumerics) before importing it into a database.

Related Tools

  • Dely Sorter: After cleaning your list, use this tool for advanced sorting (by column, number, etc.).
  • Case Converter: For more advanced case conversion formats, like snake_case or PascalCase.
  • Word Counter: Paste your cleaned text to get a full analysis, including word count and keyword density.