Remove Special Characters
Strip special characters from text with a whitelist you control: keep letters, digits, spaces, punctuation or accents, plus any custom characters.
What is the Remove Special Characters?
Remove Special Characters cleans a block of text by keeping only the character types you choose. Instead of guessing which symbols to delete, you work with a whitelist: toggle letters, digits, spaces, basic punctuation, line breaks and accented characters on or off, and everything outside your selection is removed in one pass.
- Whitelist approach — you choose what survives, everything else goes
- Toggles for letters, digits, spaces, punctuation, newlines and accents
- Custom “also keep” field for characters your data needs
- Live count of removed characters
- Option to collapse leftover double spaces
- 100% in-browser — nothing is uploaded
How to use the Remove Special Characters
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Paste your text into the input box.
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Tick the character types you want to keep: letters, digits, spaces, punctuation, line breaks, accented letters.
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Add any extra characters to preserve in the “Also keep these characters” field.
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Optionally collapse the extra spaces left behind after removal.
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Copy or download the cleaned text.
About the Remove Special Characters
Remove Special Characters cleans a block of text by keeping only the character types you choose. Instead of guessing which symbols to delete, you work with a whitelist: toggle letters, digits, spaces, basic punctuation, line breaks and accented characters on or off, and everything outside your selection is removed in one pass.
It is built for anyone cleaning up scraped content, exported data, filenames, form input or copy-pasted documents full of stray symbols. A custom “also keep” field lets you preserve specific characters — like underscores or @ signs — that your workflow needs, and a live counter shows exactly how many characters were removed.
Everything runs 100% locally in your browser. The text you paste is never uploaded to any server, so private notes, customer data and drafts stay on your device, and the tool keeps working offline.
Frequently asked questions
What counts as a special character?
Anything outside the types you whitelist. If you keep only letters, digits and spaces, then symbols like #, %, ©, emoji and control characters are all treated as special and removed.
Can I keep accented letters like é and ñ?
Yes. Enable the “Accented letters” option and Latin letters with diacritics (é, ü, ñ, ç and similar) are preserved along with regular A–Z letters.
How do I keep a specific symbol, like an underscore?
Type it into the “Also keep these characters” field. Every character you enter there is preserved even if its general category is switched off.
Will it remove emoji too?
Yes, unless you add specific emoji to the keep field. Emoji fall outside the letter, digit and punctuation whitelists, so they are stripped by default.
Is my text sent to a server?
No. The filtering happens entirely in your browser with JavaScript, so your text never leaves your device and the tool works offline.
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