Plain Text Converter — Free Online Tool
Last updated: January 2025
What is Plain Text Converter?
Plain Text Converter removes all formatting, HTML tags, invisible characters, and special Unicode from your text, leaving only clean plain text.
When to use Plain Text Converter?
Use it to clean up copy-paste from Word, PDFs, or rich text editors before using text in plain text environments.
How to use this tool
- 1Paste your formatted text or HTML
- 2Click 'Convert to Plain Text'
- 3Copy the clean, stripped result
Examples
| Input | Output |
|---|---|
| <b>Bold</b> and <em>italic</em> text | Bold and italic text |
| Text withinvisiblechars | Text with invisible chars (removed) |
| (Word document paste) | Clean text without Word formatting |
| Text with non-breaking spaces | Text with regular spaces |
| (Rich text email) | Plain text version of the email |
Rules & Behavior
- HTML tags removed
- HTML entities decoded
- Invisible Unicode characters (zero-width space, BOM, etc.) removed
- Multiple spaces normalized to one
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is plain text?
Plain text is text without any formatting, styling, or special encoding. It contains only visible characters and basic whitespace (spaces, tabs, newlines).
When do I need a plain text converter?
When pasting from Word, PDFs, or web pages into plain text fields — often the invisible formatting codes and HTML cause issues that are fixed by converting to plain text first.
Does it remove line breaks?
No, visible line breaks are preserved. Only special invisible characters and HTML formatting are removed.
What invisible characters does it remove?
Zero-width space (U+200B), zero-width non-joiner (U+200C), zero-width joiner (U+200D), BOM (U+FEFF), and other Unicode formatting control characters.
Will it work on Microsoft Word content?
Yes, paste from Word into the input and the tool will strip Word's special formatting characters and HTML-like markup.