Remove Punctuation

The Remove Punctuation tool strips punctuation marks out of any block of text, leaving just the words, numbers and spacing behind.

Paste a sentence, a paragraph or a whole document and every comma, period, semicolon, dash, bracket and quotation mark disappears, including curly quotes and other Unicode punctuation that simple find-and-replace often misses.

It is built on Unicode character categories rather than a hand-written list, so it works across languages — Spanish inverted marks, guillemets, em dashes and CJK punctuation are all recognised.

By default it leaves mathematical and currency symbols such as the dollar sign, plus sign and copyright mark in place, but a single checkbox lets you remove those too when you want only letters and digits.

A second option collapses the extra spaces that removing punctuation can leave behind, while preserving line breaks so your paragraph structure stays intact.

This is useful for cleaning text before tokenising it, preparing input for word-frequency analysis, normalising data for search, building slugs, or simply tidying messy pasted content.

Everything runs locally in your browser, so your text is never uploaded or stored, and the result updates live as you type or toggle the options.