Hidden Character Remover

Find and remove invisible characters, unusual spaces, direction overrides and curly quotes that cause problems when you paste text into code, forms or spreadsheets.

Runs in your browser. Files are not uploaded.

How to use

  1. Paste your text.
  2. See what was found.
  3. Choose what to clean, then copy the result.

Questions

Why would text contain invisible characters?

They come from copying out of web pages, word processors, PDFs and chat apps. Zero-width spaces and non-breaking spaces are the most common.

What are direction overrides?

Characters that change the order text is displayed in. They can make code or file names look different from what they are, so they are worth removing.

Will it change emoji or accented letters?

No. Emoji, accents and all ordinary characters are left alone.

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