Paste content from Word, Google Docs, HTML or any rich source and get clean, plain text instantly. Preserves list numbering and indentation. Choose exactly what to strip — formatting, links, emojis, HTML tags, and more.
Paste content from Word, Google Docs, emails, websites or any rich text source into the input box. The tool accepts pasted rich text, raw HTML, and plain text with embedded formatting characters.
Use the checkbox controls to choose exactly what gets removed: rich formatting, HTML tags, hyperlinks, emojis, extra whitespace, punctuation, non-ASCII characters, email addresses, and more. Toggle options to preview the effect instantly.
The cleaned plain text appears instantly in the output box. Click Copy to copy to clipboard or Download to save as a .txt file. Character and word counts update live so you can see the impact of each option.
Plain text is text with no embedded formatting, styling, or markup — just the raw characters themselves. When you copy from Word, Google Docs, or a webpage, your clipboard carries hidden formatting data alongside the visible text. Pasting into CMS editors, code tools, or email templates often causes garbled output or broken layouts. Converting to plain text first eliminates all that hidden baggage.
Rich text uses invisible control characters and markup to encode formatting. When you paste into a system that does not understand those characters, it displays them literally or strips them inconsistently. Smart quotes, em-dashes, non-breaking spaces, and Unicode diacritics are frequent culprits. This tool normalises all of these to clean ASCII equivalents.
Yes — enable the "Remove HTML tags" option and all HTML opening and closing tags are stripped. The text content inside the tags is preserved. This is useful for cleaning content scraped from web pages or extracting readable text from email HTML.
Plain Text Converter is a comprehensive cleaning tool with granular toggles — you can choose exactly what to remove. Remove Text Formatting is a focused tool specifically for stripping bold, italic, underline, and similar character-level formatting marks from text.
No — paragraph breaks (double line breaks) are preserved by default. Only invisible formatting characters (font information, colors, styles) are removed. If you enable Normalise whitespace, multiple consecutive blank lines are collapsed to a single blank line, but the paragraph structure remains intact.
Smart quotes are the typographic " " and ' ' characters used in Word and most publishing software. They are Unicode characters that look correct in formatted documents but cause problems in code, CSV files, JSON, and APIs expecting straight ASCII quotes. Converting them prevents parsing errors and broken code strings.
