Clean Text

Remove invisible & junk characters

What to clean

Pasted text

Cleaned

Pasting from a PDF often brings hidden junk: zerowidth spaces,  non‑breaking spaces, “smart quotes”, em—dashes, and a stray  byte-order mark.   Trailing spaces too.

Clean it up before it costs you tokens.

Removed

Invisible

Control

After

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Invisible characters like zero-width spaces and byte-order marks are real characters that cost tokens and break search and diffs, even though you can't see them. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.