Cleaning Messy Text: Removing Duplicates, Extra Spaces, and More

Copy text from a PDF, an email, or an old document, and it rarely comes out clean. Extra spaces, duplicate lines, and invisible formatting tag along for the ride. Three tools clean it up.

• Text Cleaner — strips HTML, Markdown, URLs, emojis, accents, mojibake, and more, in 24 different ways, for when pasted text needs a serious scrub.
• Remove Duplicate Lines — finds, counts, and removes duplicate lines, words, sentences, and paragraphs, useful for cleaning up lists that have grown messy over time.
• Remove Extra Spaces — cleans up stray spaces, tabs, and line breaks left over from copying and pasting between apps.

Run pasted text through one of these before it goes anywhere else, and it'll behave the way you expect it to.