AI Text Cleaner

What it does

Chatbots write in markdown. It looks fine in the chat window, but the moment you copy a reply into an email, a document or a form, the formatting shows up as raw symbols: asterisks around bold words, pound signs before headings, backticks around code and pipes in tables. AI Text Cleaner turns that into ordinary text you can paste anywhere.

It removes the markdown but keeps what matters. Headings become plain lines, lists stay as simple dashed or numbered lines, links become the link text followed by the address in brackets, and tables become tab-separated rows that drop straight into a spreadsheet. Code is kept exactly as written, only without the backticks.

It also strips invisible characters that sometimes travel with copied text, such as zero-width spaces and soft hyphens, and it tidies spacing so there are no trailing spaces or piles of blank lines. It does not rewrite your words: straightening quotes and replacing dashes are optional and off by default.

How to use it

1. Copy a reply from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other chatbot. Either use the copy button under the reply or select the text directly, both work.
2. Paste it into the box on the left. The clean version appears on the right as you paste or type.
3. Turn on the options you want. Straight quotes and simple dashes are useful for plain-text emails and code; links as text only is useful when the addresses are just noise.
4. Press Copy clean text and paste the result wherever you need it.

Frequently asked questions

Why does text copied from ChatGPT have asterisks and pound signs in it?

ChatGPT and most other chatbots format their replies with markdown, a lightweight syntax where **word** means bold, ## means a heading and - starts a bullet. The chat window renders those symbols as formatting, but the copy button usually gives you the raw markdown, so the symbols appear when you paste into something that does not understand markdown.

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No. The cleaner is a small script that runs inside your browser. Your text never leaves your device, nothing is stored, and there is no account. You can check by loading the page and then switching off your internet connection: the tool keeps working.

What are the hidden characters it removes?

Zero-width spaces (U+200B), word joiners (U+2060), byte order marks (U+FEFF) and soft hyphens (U+00AD). These are invisible but can break searches, spell-checkers and copy-paste into forms. Non-breaking spaces are turned into normal spaces. Zero-width joiners inside emoji, such as family emoji, are left alone, as are zero-width non-joiners that are part of words in Persian, Urdu and Indic scripts.

Will it change my wording?

Not by default. It only removes formatting symbols and hidden characters and tidies spacing. The two options that do touch characters in your text, straightening curly quotes and replacing em and en dashes with hyphens, are switched off until you turn them on.

Does it work with Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity?

Yes. They all use the same markdown conventions, so the cleaner treats them the same way. It also handles text selected directly from the chat window, which usually has no markdown symbols but may contain bullet glyphs and hidden characters.

How do I get a chatbot table into Excel or Google Sheets?

Paste the reply into the cleaner, copy the clean text, then paste into a cell in your spreadsheet. Table rows come out with a tab between each cell, which Excel, Google Sheets and Numbers all split into columns automatically.