Clipboard Cleaner
Strip formatting and invisible characters from pasted text.
🔒 Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
✅ Clipboard cleared
How Clipboard Cleaner works
How does the clipboard cleaner work?
It runs a series of regular-expression replacements on your pasted text: curly single and double quotes become straight ones, en and em dashes become plain hyphens, zero-width characters and the byte-order mark are stripped out entirely, and runs of spaces/tabs collapse to a single space while excess blank lines are trimmed to at most two. The "Read from clipboard" and "Clear my clipboard" buttons use the browser's navigator.clipboard API to pull text in or overwrite it with an empty string.
When would I use this?
It's built for cleaning up text copied from a word processor, PDF, or web page before pasting it into a plain-text field, code editor, or system that chokes on smart quotes and invisible formatting characters. It's also a fast way to wipe your clipboard after copying something sensitive, like a password or one-time code.
Does clipboard access always work, and is any of this sent to a server?
Everything runs locally with plain JavaScript string replacements - nothing you paste or clean is transmitted anywhere. The clipboard read/write buttons depend on the browser's Clipboard API, which typically requires the page to be served over HTTPS and may prompt you for a one-time permission click before it works.