Remove Special Characters from Text – Clean Your Text Instantly

Need to clean up messy text filled with punctuation, symbols, or non-standard characters? Use our free Remove Special Characters tool to strip away unwanted symbols and retain only the content you need. It’s quick, customizable, and perfect for writers, developers, data analysts, and more.

What Does the Remove Special Characters Tool Do?

This tool lets you filter out non-essential characters from your text while keeping just the parts that matter most—letters, numbers, and spaces. Whether you’re prepping input for coding, formatting a data file, or cleaning up social media content, it gives you total control over what stays and what goes.

You can choose from multiple cleaning options:

• Keep only alphanumeric characters and spaces (letters, numbers, and spaces)
• Keep only alphanumeric characters (letters and numbers, no spaces)
• Keep only numeric characters and spaces (digits and spaces)
• Keep numeric-only (just the digits 0–9)
• Keep ASCII-only (remove non-ASCII characters like emojis or non-English symbols)

Example:

Input:
This tool removes $special characters /other/ than! digits, characters, and spaces!!!$
Output (alphanumeric + spaces):
This tool removes special characters other than digit characters and spaces.

How to Use the Tool

1. Paste or upload your text into the input box.
2. Choose the cleaning rule you want to apply from the dropdown menu.
3. Click “Submit” to remove unwanted characters.
4. Copy your cleaned text using the copy button.

Whether you’re processing raw data or preparing content for publication, it’s a huge time-saver.

Why Remove Special Characters?

Removing special characters helps when:

• Cleaning data for programming, machine learning, or analytics
• Formatting input for forms or databases
• Prepping plain text for social media or web publishing
• Stripping messy content pasted from PDFs, Word docs, or scraped web pages

This tool is especially useful for coders, editors, content creators, and students handling bulk or formatted data.

Read more guideline here:

• Alphanumeric characters – Wikipedia
• What is ASCII?
• Text Sanitization in Programming – MDN Web Docs

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• Remove Line Breaks
• Remove Spaces
• Remove Numbers