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Remove Special Characters
Strip everything except letters, numbers, and whitespace from your text — an aggressive cleanup that also removes punctuation.
How to Use Remove Special Characters
- 1Paste your text
- 2Click Convert
- 3Copy the text with only letters, numbers, and spaces remaining
Frequently Asked Questions
Anything that isn't a-z, A-Z, 0-9, or whitespace — this includes punctuation (periods, commas, quotes), symbols (@, #, %), and accented/non-Latin letters, all of which get removed.
Yes — since the allowed set is only plain a-z/A-Z, accented and non-Latin characters are stripped out along with symbols. If you only want to remove diacritics while keeping the base letters, use the Remove Accents tool instead.
Yes — this is a broad cleanup that removes all punctuation, not just unusual symbols. If you need to keep basic punctuation, this tool isn't selective enough for that.
No — the cleanup happens entirely in your browser.
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