How do I remove accents from text?

Check 'Remove accents / diacritics'. The tool uses Unicode normalization (NFD) to separate base letters from their accent marks, then removes the accent characters. For example, café → cafe, naïve → naive.

How do I strip non-ASCII characters?

Check 'Remove non-ASCII characters' to keep only characters in the 0-127 ASCII range, stripping all Unicode letters, symbols, and emoji.

Text Cleaner — Remove Punctuation, Accents, Special Characters

Text cleaning is a critical preprocessing step in natural language processing (NLP), data normalisation, SEO slug generation, search indexing, and database entry sanitisation. This tool provides a configurable set of cleaning operations including accent removal, punctuation stripping, non-ASCII filtering, and HTML tag removal.

Common Text Cleaning Operations

Remove accents: café → cafe, naïve → naive, résumé → resume (uses Unicode NFD normalization)
Remove punctuation: strips !,.;:'"?-() and all other punctuation marks
Remove non-ASCII: keeps only the 128 standard ASCII characters
Remove numbers: strips all digit characters 0–9
Remove emoji: strips Unicode emoji and symbol characters
Strip HTML: removes <tags> and preserves inner text content
Collapse spaces: replaces runs of multiple spaces with a single space

Frequently Asked Questions

How does accent removal work?

The tool uses Unicode Normalisation Form D (NFD) to decompose characters like é into e + ́ (the base letter plus a combining accent mark). It then removes all combining characters (Unicode category Mn), leaving only the base letters.

Will stripping HTML break the text?

The HTML stripper removes tags (anything between < and >) but keeps the text content between tags. It also decodes common HTML entities: & → &, < → <,   → space.

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Common Text Cleaning Operations

Frequently Asked Questions

How does accent removal work?

Will stripping HTML break the text?