OutputReady – Hidden Character Cleaner

Paste text, click once, and copy a version with hidden artifacts removed — without anything leaving your machine. OutputReady cleans invisible and unusual Unicode that sneaks into copied text: • Zero-width spaces and word joiners (U+200B, U+2060) • Soft hyphens, BOM, invisible math operators • Exotic spaces that break search, code, and CSVs • Stray tag characters and private-use code points Built-in protections keep meaning intact: • Emoji ZWJ sequences and variation selectors stay whole • Persian/Arabic/Indic joiners inside words are preserved • Valid bidirectional marks, isolates, and embeddings survive • Flag-tag sequences render untouched • Markdown, URLs, code, and normal punctuation are never flagged Everything happens locally in your browser. There is no upload, no account, no analytics, and no network access — the extension cannot phone home because its manifest forbids connections outright. Two ways to use it: 1. Click the toolbar icon, paste, press “Clean & copy”. 2. Select text on any page, right-click, choose “Clean selected text with OutputReady”, then copy the cleaned result from the summary window. “Review changes” shows an exact Original | Cleaned | Changes diff so you always see precisely which characters were removed or normalized — counts included, guesswork excluded. Note on AI text: people often meet these artifacts after copying from AI chat tools, PDFs, websites, and rich editors. OutputReady is honest character-level hygiene: it removes hidden Unicode and says exactly what it changed. It does not detect authorship, does not alter or assess any model watermark, and makes no claims about AI detectors. Free, small (~15 KB), keyboard-accessible, screen-reader friendly, and reduced- motion aware. Advanced forensics — full diffs, exports, deep review — remain at outputready.ai whenever you want them.