AI Text Cleaner

Strip the marks AI text leaves behind.

FREE · NO SIGN-UP · RUNS ON YOUR DEVICE

Your text stays on your device

  • 4SWITCHES
  • 6INVISIBLE TYPES
  • 0SIGN-UP
  • 1TAP TO COPY
Specification

AI Text Cleaner at a glance

Invisible characters
Six kinds removed
Spaces
Odd spaces normalised
Dashes
Hyphen or comma
Quotes
Straightened
Spacing
Spacing tidied
Count
Counted, not guessed
Price
Free
Account required
None
Where it runs
On your device
How to

How to use AI Text Cleaner

  1. 1

    Paste your text

    Paste your text.

  2. 2

    Choose the switches

    Choose the switches.

  3. 3

    Read the count and copy

    Check and copy.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What are invisible characters?

Zero-width and joining characters that take up no space but are still there. They survive copying and can break searches and comparisons.

Does this detect AI writing?

No. It removes characters and counts them. It makes no judgement about where text came from and cannot tell you that.

Why turn an em dash into a hyphen?

Plain hyphens survive systems that mangle other characters. Where a dash sat between spaces it becomes a spaced hyphen, so the sentence still reads.

Can I keep the smart quotes?

Yes. Turn that switch off and the quotes are left exactly as they are while the other cleaning still runs.

Background

What the marks actually are

Four switches, all on to start. Paste your text and read what came out: the count line names every mark that was found, so nothing is removed quietly.

  • A zero-width space takes no room on screen but still counts as a character to anything comparing strings.
  • Non-breaking spaces stop lines wrapping where you want them to, which is why they become ordinary spaces.
  • Smart quotes break code and some import formats, where a straight quote is what is expected.
  • Counting what was removed is the only way to know the paste is actually clean rather than merely reformatted.

Full specification

Specification of the AI Text Cleaner tool
Invisible charactersZero-width space, non-joiner, joiner, word joiner, byte order mark and soft hyphen.
SpacesNon-breaking and narrow no-break spaces become ordinary spaces.
DashesEm and en dashes become a hyphen or a comma, your choice.
QuotesCurly quotes become straight ones and an ellipsis becomes three dots.
SpacingRepeated spaces collapse, trailing spaces go, long gaps between paragraphs shorten.
CountEvery category found is listed with its number before you copy.
PriceFree. Supported by clearly labelled ads placed outside the working area.
Account requiredNo.
Where it runsIn your browser tab. Nothing is sent anywhere.
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