Remove specific characters from your text with this free online tool. Perfect for cleaning data, removing unwanted symbols, or preparing text for processing.
Unwanted characters can sneak into your text from various sources — copied content from websites, data exports, or even accidental keyboard presses. These characters can cause issues when processing text, break formatting, or simply make your content look unprofessional.
Whether you're cleaning up data for analysis, preparing text for a specific format, or just want to remove annoying symbols, this tool helps you strip out exactly the characters you don't want while keeping everything else intact.
Pick what should happen first. Remove these characters takes out everything you name and leaves the rest. Keep only these characters does the opposite: anything you have not named is dropped, which is the quicker route when the list of things you want is shorter than the list of things you don't.
Then say which characters you mean. Type them into the field one after another, with no commas or spaces between them — @#$% rather than @, #, $, %. Every character is taken literally, so a hyphen means a hyphen and nothing more.
Case sensitivity is a switch, so removing a can take out a capital A as well if you want it to. In keep-only mode you can hold on to spaces and line breaks regardless of the rest, so the words don't run together. Everything updates as you type.
This tool is particularly useful for data cleaning tasks. Whether you're preparing data for analysis, cleaning up CSV files, or standardizing text formats, being able to remove specific characters is essential.
You can remove special characters that might cause issues in databases, strip out unwanted formatting characters, or clean up text that's been copied from various sources. It works on whole characters rather than on the bytes behind them, so emoji and accented letters are taken out in one piece instead of being cut in half.
The tool works entirely in your browser, so your data never leaves your computer. Hope you find this online tool useful!
Type them into the field, one after another with nothing between them - @#$%, not @, #, $, %. Every occurrence of each one is taken out of the text, and every character is read literally, so you never have to escape anything.
Yes. Enter the full set in one go, such as all ten digits, and they are handled in a single pass. Worth remembering for text copied out of a word processor: the quotes and dashes in it are often the curly and long versions rather than the ones on your keyboard, so paste them in from the text itself rather than typing them.
Switch to Keep only these characters at the top. Everything you have not named is dropped rather than kept, which is the shorter way round whenever the list of things you want is smaller than the list of things you don't. Spaces and line breaks can be held on to separately, so the words do not run together.
That is up to you. Case sensitive is on by default, so an a and an A are treated as different characters. Switch it off and naming one case takes out both. For characters you cannot type because you cannot see them, use the Invisible Character Remover instead.
No. The text is read one whole character at a time rather than one byte at a time, so an emoji is taken out in one piece or left alone in one piece. Nothing is ever cut in half and left as a broken character.
No. Every character you type is taken literally, so entering a-z removes the letter a, the hyphen and the letter z, and nothing in between. If you want a whole alphabet gone, paste it in.