Text Extractor + Cleanup
Clean up messy OCR, PDF copy-paste, and web text with free AI — fix broken line breaks, remove artifacts, and get tidy plain text. No sign-up.
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Clean up messy text from OCR, PDF copy-paste, or the web. The AI repairs broken line breaks, rejoins hyphenated words, strips page numbers and artifacts, and returns tidy, readable plain text — without summarizing or dropping content.
How to use Text Extractor + Cleanup
- Paste the messy text you want cleaned.
- Click "Clean up" to fix the formatting.
- Copy the tidy, readable result.
Who it is for
Text Extractor + Cleanup is for the mess that comes out of a PDF or a web page: broken line breaks mid-sentence, hyphenated words split across lines, page numbers in the middle of a paragraph, and stray artefacts. It is the step between copying text out of a document and being able to use it.
How it works
- The AI repairs broken line breaks, rejoins hyphenated words and strips page numbers and artefacts.
- It is instructed not to summarise or drop content, so the result is the same text with the noise removed.
- The cleaned output can go straight into a word processor or a database.
What it cannot do
- It cannot recover text that was never extracted — a scan still needs OCR first.
- Aggressive rejoining can merge two genuine short lines that should have stayed separate.
- Tables and columns are not reconstructed; they come out as running text.
- The text is sent to a third-party AI provider.
Frequently asked questions
What does it fix?
It joins broken lines and hyphenated words, removes stray page numbers, headers, and OCR artifacts, and normalises spacing so the text reads cleanly.
Does it shorten my text?
No. It only cleans formatting — it does not summarize or omit content, so all of your original wording is preserved.
Is it good for OCR output?
Yes. It is designed for exactly that kind of input, along with text copied out of PDFs or scraped from web pages.
Is my text private?
Your text is sent securely only for the cleanup and is not stored on our servers afterward.
Why did my tables lose their structure?
The instruction is to clean formatting, not to rebuild layout, and a table arrives as running text with the columns collapsed. Use PDF to Excel for tabular data rather than cleaning it here.
What if it removes something I needed?
It is instructed not to drop content, but a page number that looked like a figure can still be stripped. Compare against the original if the exact wording matters.
Is my text stored?
Your text is sent securely for the cleanup and is not stored on our servers afterward, though it does reach a third-party provider.