CleanPaste
HIDDEN CHARACTER REMOVER

Remove hidden characters from text

Paste copied text and remove hidden characters such as zero-width spaces, direction marks, BOM residue, and non-breaking spaces. CleanPaste keeps the wording intact so you can move the result into a CMS, document, form, spreadsheet, or code comment with fewer invisible surprises.

Hidden character remover

Paste text, remove hidden artifacts, and copy a cleaner result.

Free cleanup runs in your browser.

Removal Options

Recommended defaults

Recommended defaults focus on hidden character removal and safe spacing normalization. Advanced formatting changes stay optional.

Recommended

Advanced

Optional

Hidden chars

0

Spacing fixes

0

Format fixes

0

Before

0

After

0

PRODUCT TEST OUTPUT

What the remover changes and what it preserves

A focused hidden-character cleanup should remove invisible code points without turning the page into a paraphraser. Use this check when you need to remove hidden characters before publishing, importing data, or comparing two strings that look identical. This product test uses the same cleanup function as the tool above.

Sample run with zero-width, direction, hard-space, and BOM artifacts

Before

Product​ description with hidden controls‎, hard spaces, and a BOM that should not survive publishing.

After

Product description with hidden controls, hard spaces, and a BOM that should not survive publishing.
3 hidden characters removed
1 spacing fix
0 wording changes

Zero-width and format marks

The remover targets invisible marks commonly copied from editors, documents, AI outputs, and web pages.

Hard spaces

Non-breaking spaces are converted to normal spaces so pasted text behaves more predictably in forms and CMS fields.

Preserved wording

The default pass removes hidden artifacts and spacing noise; it does not rewrite facts, tone, or sentence order.

If you need to see exactly which artifacts are present before removal, use the related Invisible Character Detector first.

When hidden character removal matters

Hidden Unicode characters are easy to miss because the text may look unchanged on screen. They can still affect matching, validation, search, and publishing workflows.

Search and matching

A hidden character inside a product name, title, slug, or keyword can make two visually identical strings compare differently.

CMS and form fields

Zero-width marks, hard spaces, and control characters can survive copy-paste into fields where editors expect plain text.

Publishing handoff

Clean hidden characters before you hand text to WordPress, Shopify, Notion, Google Docs, spreadsheets, or internal tools.

Limits and safe settings

Hidden character removal is mechanical cleanup. Use these rules to remove hidden characters safely without changing content you meant to keep.

Not a rewrite

The default cleanup does not humanize, summarize, fact-check, translate, or change the meaning of the text.

Advanced options are separate

Dash, quote, ellipsis, markdown, and asterisk cleanup can change visible characters, so those controls stay optional.

Code needs review

For source code, commands, regular expressions, or data exports, inspect the output before copying because whitespace can be meaningful.

Remove hidden characters FAQ

Answers for cleaning invisible Unicode artifacts from pasted text and deciding when to remove hidden characters directly.

Remove hidden characters now

Paste your text into the workspace above, keep the safe defaults enabled, and copy a cleaner version.

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