Strip hidden characters and repair broken formatting from copied text, keeping the styling you want. All local, no uploads.
Users
9
+5 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#203K
#170K among extensions
Version
1.2.0
updated 31 Aug 2026
Users
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 17 Oct 2026:9 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 17 Oct 2026:0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About Paste Cleaner — Tidy Pasted Text, Privately
Paste anything in; get clean text out. Everything happens on your computer - no uploads, no account, no tracking, and the extension requests no permissions at all.
- Removes invisible characters (including the hidden kinds sometimes used as AI watermarks), counted and named so you can see what changed
- Fixes formatting that breaks when copying from AI chats into Gmail, Word or Docs - no more columns, giant fonts or broken lists
- Keeps what matters: bold, italics, underline, links, lists, line breaks, and optionally headings
- Copy the result as rich text, plain text or Markdown
- Careful with real writing: emoji, Arabic, Persian, Indic scripts and other living orthographies pass through untouched
- Optional toggles: straighten smart quotes, replace em-dashes
- Keyboard shortcut to open it instantly
Honest scope: this tool removes hidden characters and repairs markup. AI text watermarks of the statistical kind live in word choice, not characters, so no character-level cleaner can remove them - and we do not claim to.