Remove Punctuation
Remove punctuation marks from text online. Strip periods, commas, quotes, brackets and symbols, keep the sets you choose, and optionally collapse the extra spaces.
What is the Remove Punctuation?
Remove Punctuation strips punctuation and symbol characters out of your text, leaving just the words.
- Removes periods, commas, quotes, brackets and symbols
- Optionally keep apostrophes and hyphens inside words
- Optionally keep sentence-ending marks . ! ?
- Collapse leftover multiple spaces into one
- Live character count on the output
- Runs locally — your text is never uploaded
How to use the Remove Punctuation
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Paste your text into the input box.
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Choose which punctuation to keep, such as apostrophes or sentence marks.
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Optionally enable collapsing of the resulting extra spaces.
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Copy the cleaned text or download it as a file.
About the Remove Punctuation
Remove Punctuation strips punctuation and symbol characters out of your text, leaving just the words. It's useful for preparing text for analysis, generating clean keyword strings, or normalising content before comparison and tokenisation.
You're in control of exactly what goes: keep sentence-ending marks, keep apostrophes and hyphens inside words, or remove everything. An optional pass collapses the spaces left behind so the result reads cleanly rather than full of gaps.
The cleanup runs entirely in your browser with JavaScript. Your text is processed on your device and never uploaded, so private drafts stay private.
Frequently asked questions
How do I remove all punctuation from text?
Paste your text into the box with all keep-options off and the tool strips every punctuation and symbol character, leaving only words, numbers, and spaces.
Can I keep apostrophes in contractions like don't?
Yes. Enable the keep-apostrophes option and marks inside words are preserved, so contractions and possessives such as don't and John's stay intact.
Why does my text have double spaces after removing punctuation?
Removing a mark can leave the surrounding spaces behind. Turn on the collapse-spaces option and runs of spaces are reduced to a single space automatically.
Does removing punctuation delete numbers?
No. Numbers and letters are kept. Only punctuation and symbol characters are removed, so figures inside your text remain.
Is my text uploaded when removing punctuation?
No. All processing happens in your browser with JavaScript, so your text stays private on your device.
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