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Clean pasted text. Strips formatting, hidden characters, and AI fingerprints. No data leaves your browser. Paste messy, formatted or AI-generated text in - get clean plain text out with one click. Remove formatting, em dashes and hidden characters from ChatGPT replies, Word documents and web pages. No sign-up, and your text never leaves your browser. PRIVATE BY DESIGN All text processing runs locally, without calls to external services or cloud processing. No accounts, tracking or analytics. TextCleanr asks only for settings storage, the right-click menu and temporary access to the page where you use it. None of these shows an install warning. WHAT IT DOES Text copied from Word, Google Docs, web pages, PDFs or AI chat tools can contain smart quotes, unusual dashes, invisible characters, HTML markup and odd spacing. TextCleanr clears the formatting and turns it into plain text, ready to paste anywhere. - Smart quotes and curly apostrophes become straight ones - Em and en dashes become plain hyphens, with compound words like well-being left alone - Ellipses, bullets, most arrows and stars become plain-text equivalents, and other decorative symbols are removed - Hidden characters are removed: zero-width spaces, soft hyphens, direction marks. Non-breaking spaces become ordinary ones - HTML tags, inline styles and Word markup are stripped, with a toggle to keep them - Comparison operators, fractions, superscripts and legal symbols become readable plain text - Fullwidth letters and digits, such as Ａ and １, become A and 1. Fullwidth punctuation is kept in Chinese, Japanese and Korean text - Web addresses keep their shape, international domain names are kept and lookalike letters in a link are corrected - Comparisons such as a<b, negative numbers and ranges are kept as they are in code fragments BUILT FOR YOUR LANGUAGE With English only text (plain ASCII) off, accents and letters in every alphabet stay as they are while the formatting around them is cleaned. TextCleanr's screens come in twelve languages: English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian and Spanish. Arabic gets a right-to-left layout. Chrome picks the language from your browser settings. English only text (plain ASCII) removes accents and letters from other alphabets, but keeps £, € and $ and web addresses. It starts on when your browser language is English and off otherwise. Choose on the welcome page or change it in Settings at any time. It works only while Strip AI Artefacts is on. THREE WAYS TO USE IT 1. Select text, right-click and choose Clean with TextCleanr. The cleaned version opens in a tab, ready to copy. This works in text boxes, embedded frames and PDFs opened in Chrome, and selections of up to 500,000 characters come through in full. 2. A keyboard shortcut opens TextCleanr from any tab, no toolbar hunting. 3. Use the toolbar popup to paste text in and copy it out as plain text, or open Extended Mode in a full tab for live character, word and line counts, resizable text areas and highlighting that shows exactly what will change. NEW IN VERSION 1.2 - Any language: accents and every alphabet can stay as they are, and the screens come in twelve languages - English only text (plain ASCII): a new setting, on by default when your browser language is English - Right-click to clean: select text, right-click and choose Clean with TextCleanr - Keyboard shortcut to open TextCleanr from any tab - Strip AI Artefacts: a switch for cleaning dashes, odd spaces and emoji - Selections of up to 500,000 characters come through in full, and web addresses keep their shape anywhere in the text - Dozens of cleaning fixes, from tabs and non-breaking hyphens to international web addresses MAKE IT YOURS Edit any replacement rule in Settings. Add your own rules, including regular expressions (regex), or delete the ones you do not want. Reset to the defaults at any time. Three toggles control HTML stripping, Strip AI Artefacts and English only text (plain ASCII). FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: Does TextCleanr send my text to a server? A: No. TextCleanr processes your text locally in your browser, never uploads it and keeps none of it after Chrome closes. Q: Does it work with AI-generated text? A: Yes. TextCleanr cleans the formatting in AI-generated text, including smart quotes, unusual dashes and invisible spacing. Q: Does it work in languages other than English? A: Yes. Letters in every alphabet are kept unless English only text (plain ASCII) is on, and the screens come in twelve languages. Chrome picks the language from your browser settings. Q: Why did accented letters or another alphabet disappear? A: English only text (plain ASCII) is on. It removes accents and letters from other alphabets but keeps £, € and $ and web addresses. Choose Text in any language on the welcome page or turn English only text (plain ASCII) off in Settings. Q: Can I customise what gets replaced? A: Yes. Open Settings to add, edit or remove replacement rules. Regular expressions (regex) are fully supported. Q: What happened to PlainTextify? A: PlainTextify was rebranded to TextCleanr with the v1.1 release. Same developer, same extension, better name.