Remove text formatting — clean plain text from anywhere
Turn Word, PDF or web content into clean plain text without markup or smart quotes.
Formatted or pasted content
Plain text
How to remove text formatting in your browser
Content pasted from Word, a PDF or a web page brings hidden markup, curly quotes, odd bullets and stray tags with it. This cleaner reduces all of it to plain text you can safely drop into a CMS, an email or a document.
- 1Paste the formatted content.
- 2Choose what should be stripped.
- 3Check the plain text preview.
- 4Copy or download the clean version.
What this remove text formatting tool does
HTML and markdown removal
Tags, entities, headings, bold, italics, code fences and link syntax are stripped, keeping the readable words.
Straight punctuation
Curly quotes, en and em dashes and ellipsis characters become plain ASCII equivalents.
Optional deep clean
Remove emoji, URLs and every non-ASCII character when a system needs strict plain text.
Why people use it
- Free with no account, no email and no watermark
- Runs in the browser — documents stay on your device
- Works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS
- Also great for strip formatting from text and convert to plain text online
Frequently asked questions
Does it keep line breaks?
- Yes — paragraphs are preserved while extra blank lines are collapsed.
Is my content uploaded?
- No. The cleaning runs entirely in your browser.
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