Invisible Character Cleaner
Paste text copied from a website or Word document. This removes hidden zero-width characters, collapses repeated spaces, and straightens curly quotes — all in your browser.
Paste or type text to begin.
What counts as an “invisible character”?
Characters like zero-width space (U+200B), zero-width joiner/non-joiner, word joiner, byte-order mark (U+FEFF), soft hyphen and left/right mark — they take up no visible space but can break search, copy-paste, or code that reads the text. They often sneak in from copying text out of web pages or Word documents.
What does “straighten curly quotes” do?
Converts typographic quotes such as ‘ ’ “ ” „ « » into plain straight ' and " — useful when pasting into code, JSON, or plain-text fields that choke on smart quotes.
Is my text sent anywhere?
No. Everything runs locally in your browser with JavaScript — nothing is uploaded or logged.