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Special Character Remover

Remove special characters from text.

Remove all special characters, keeping only letters, numbers, and spaces.

Tired of cleaning up weird characters in your copied text?

Whether you're copying text from PDFs, websites, or apps, you often end up with unwanted special characters like ※, ★, ♡, or other random symbols. These clutter your content and make it harder to reuse the text cleanly.

The Special Character Remover helps you automatically clean your text by removing all unnecessary symbols — quickly and precisely.

Two modes for flexible control

This tool offers both a Simple Mode and an Advanced Mode to fit your needs:

✅ Simple Mode

  • Removes all special characters automatically
  • Keeps only letters (A-Z), numbers (0-9), and spaces
  • Great for quick cleanup and basic formatting

⚙️ Advanced Mode

  • Customize what to keep: numbers, letters, Korean characters, or spaces
  • Optional: Remove or retain line breaks
  • Add extra characters manually to the whitelist, e.g., ():,.;-
  • Ideal for detailed text sanitization, like forms or code blocks

Use cases

  • Clean up copy-pasted blog content
  • Sanitize text input before saving to database
  • Prepare clean data for NLP or prompt input
  • Remove broken encoding from foreign websites
  • Create clear, plain-text prompts for ChatGPT and other LLMs

How to use

  1. Paste your text into the input box
  2. Click "Remove Special Characters" in Simple Mode
  3. Or switch to Advanced Mode and set up your own filtering rules
  4. Copy the cleaned result from the output area

Keywords

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