Strip HTML tags, emoji, URLs, emails, punctuation, digits and stray whitespace from messy copy using ten filters you can combine.
Ten filters, and they always run in the order printed on screen rather than the order you switched them on. That matters more than it sounds. Remove Special Chars sits second in the chain and deletes the / character; Remove URLs sits fourth and hunts for https://. Turn both on and the URL filter finds nothing, because the slashes were gone before it ran. The Text Cleaner is a pipeline, so choose the smallest set that does the job.
Two filters are active when the page loads, Strip HTML Tags and Collapse Whitespace, which between them handle the ordinary rich-text paste. Select Alland Clear All sit above the grid for the two extremes. A -284 chars badge on the output header reports what a given combination stripped.
Every filter is a regular expression applied to the string in the box. Nothing is parsed, nothing is fetched, and no text is sent to a server.
. , ! ? ; : ' " ( ) -, discarding everything else including @, /, # and every accented letter.Q4 2026 becomes a bare Q followed by two spaces, which is usually a sign you wanted a different filter.< written as a less-than sign opens what it reads as a tag and swallows everything up to the next >. Run it over prose containing arithmetic and a clause disappears. and & arrive as literal text and need a second pass elsewhere.