Clean copied text.
Make it feel native again.
Free online text cleaner that fixes broken line breaks, messy spacing, hidden characters, and unwanted formatting in seconds. Nothing gets uploaded.
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More ways to clean your text
PDF text cleaner
Repair wrapped lines and split words
Remove formatting
Turn rich text into clean plain text
Remove line breaks
Join wrapped text your way
Remove duplicate lines
Deduplicate with precise controls
AI formatting cleaner
Remove Markdown without losing the copy
AI text cleaner
Strip em dashes, smart quotes, and hidden marks
Your words stay
on your screen.
PasteScrub runs every cleanup rule locally inside your browser. Your text is never sent to a server, stored in a database, attached to analytics, or shared with advertisers.
See exactly how it worksFrom messy to ready in three steps
Paste
Drop in text from a PDF, website, AI chat, email, or document.
Choose
Pick a focused tool and adjust only the controls you need.
Use it
Copy or download the clean result, ready for its next destination.
Questions, answered
Yes. All text transformations happen in your browser. Your pasted text is not sent to our servers or included in analytics.
PasteScrub does not impose an artificial limit. Extremely large text may be constrained by your device and browser memory.
Yes. You retain all rights to your text. PasteScrub claims no ownership over what you process.
The current tools use fast, predictable rules. The AI formatting cleaner removes Markdown commonly found in AI output but does not send content to an AI model.
No. Every tool is free to use, with no account, no trial, and no usage cap.