Is this tool secure? Does my text get stored?

All text processing happens entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Your text never gets uploaded to any server or stored anywhere. Once you close the page, your data is completely gone.

What is the maximum text size I can process?

The tool can handle up to 100,000 characters (approximately 50 pages of text). For very large texts over 50,000 characters, Auto-Clean mode is automatically disabled to ensure smooth performance.

What keyboard shortcuts are available?

Press Cmd+Enter on Mac or Ctrl+Enter on Windows to clean your text instantly. Press ESC to clear all text from both input and output areas.

Does it work offline?

Yes. After the page loads once, the text cleaning functionality works completely offline. Since all processing happens in your browser, you don't need an internet connection to clean your text.

Can I format paragraphs and preserve formatting?

The tool is designed to clean and standardize text. If you need to remove line breaks within paragraphs, use our Remove Line Breaks tool. You can also try our Case Converter for text formatting.

How do I remove HTML tags from text?

Use our dedicated Remove HTML Tags tool, or enable the Remove HTML tags option in the main text cleaner. Both will strip all HTML markup while preserving the text content.

Can I analyze my text statistics?

Yes! Check out our Text Statistics tool to get word count, character count, reading time, and more. We also have separate Word Counter and Character Counter tools.

Is this tool free? Are there any limits?

Yes, CleanUpTxt is 100% free with no registration required. The only limit is the 100,000 character maximum per cleaning operation. All features are available to everyone at no cost.

CleanUpTxt - Free Online Text Cleaner Tool

Name: CleanUpTxt
Author: CleanUpTxt

✨ Smart Clean

Removes line breaks, extra spaces, empty lines, tabs, and trims whitespace

Input

Paste your messy text

Type or paste

Drop a file

Supports .txt, .md, .csv, .json, .docx

0/100,000(0%)1lines

Cleaned Output

Your polished text

0chars

Keyboard Shortcuts

Ctrl + EnterClean text

ESCClear all text

What is a Text Cleaner?

A text cleaner is a simple online utility that helps you format and fix messy text instantly. Whether you're working with content copied from PDFs, emails, or websites, text cleaners remove unwanted line breaks, extra spaces, and duplicate lines that make your content hard to read or use.

Why removing line breaks matters: When you copy text from PDFs or web pages, unnecessary line breaks often get inserted at the end of each line. This makes the text difficult to paste into documents, spreadsheets, or social media posts. Our tool removes these breaks instantly, creating clean, continuous paragraphs.

Why Clean Text?

Text formatting issues are one of the most common productivity blockers in digital work. When you copy content from PDFs, web pages, or email clients, hidden formatting characters come along for the ride. These invisible characters—line breaks, tabs, non-breaking spaces, and HTML tags—make your text unusable in spreadsheets, databases, or content management systems.

Professional content creators, researchers, and developers spend hours manually cleaning text that should take seconds. CleanUpTxt eliminates this friction by automating text cleanup tasks that would otherwise require complex find-and-replace operations across multiple steps. One click transforms messy, formatted text into clean, usable content.

Beyond saving time, proper text cleaning ensures data consistency. When importing data into Excel or databases, extra spaces and line breaks can cause import errors, duplicate records, or formatting issues. Clean text means fewer errors and more reliable data processing workflows.

Common Text Cleanup Tasks

Clean text from PDFs: Research papers and documents often have line breaks at the end of every line. Remove these to create continuous paragraphs perfect for citing or quoting.
Format text for Excel: Prepare data for spreadsheet import by removing tabs, extra spaces, and special characters that can break CSV parsing or create formatting issues.
Remove formatting from Word: Strip invisible formatting characters that persist even after "paste as plain text," ensuring truly clean content for CMSs and databases.
Social media caption cleanup: Remove unwanted line breaks and emojis from copied captions, or standardize formatting across multiple posts for consistency.
Code comment formatting: Clean up comments copied from documentation, removing HTML tags and normalizing spacing for better code readability.
Email text extraction: Strip HTML formatting and quoted reply markers from email threads to extract just the core message content.

How It Works

CleanUpTxt uses client-side JavaScript to process your text entirely in your browser. When you paste text and select cleaning options, the tool applies a series of regex-based transformations to remove unwanted characters and formatting. No server uploads, no API calls, no data storage—everything happens locally on your device.

Real-time processing mode lets you see changes as you type, making it easy to experiment with different cleaning options until you get the exact result you need. The tool remembers your last input and preferred settings using browser localStorage, so your workflow stays consistent across sessions.

Export options include .txt for general use, .csv for spreadsheet imports (with proper quote escaping), and .md for markdown workflows. Quick presets (Excel Mode, Social Media Mode, Plain Text Mode) automatically select the right combination of cleaning options for common use cases, eliminating the guesswork.