Paste text that looks correct but fails a search, validation check, comparison, or code review. TextSnoop reveals the supported invisible characters, shows where they occur, and removes them only when you choose to revise the text.
Read the guidePaste your text to get started. Choose the revisions you want, then copy the result for its destination.
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Rich paste detected: 1 bold span and 1 paragraph boundary. The boundaries remain single line breaks until you choose to restore spacing and clean the text.
Choose revisions, then prepare the text for its destination.
Inline-styled HTML, Windows line endings, and explicit blank rows.
Zero-width space cleaner guide
A zero-width character occupies a real position in a string even though it does not take up visible space. It can arrive through copied web content, PDFs, messaging applications, word processors, or language-aware text shaping. Two words may look identical while their underlying character sequences are different.
TextSnoop detects the zero-width space, zero-width non-joiner, zero-width joiner, word joiner, byte-order mark, soft hyphen, and several related formatting marks. The Reveal Hidden and Character Inspector views let you confirm the character and its Unicode code point before cleaning.
Paste the suspect text, then use Reveal Hidden or Character Inspector to locate invisible characters and review their code points.
The Zero-width space cleaner enables Remove invisible formatting while preserving the other safe cleaning defaults.
Choose Revise text, review the change comparison, and copy or download the result only after it matches your intent.
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ordernumber
The input contains U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE between “order” and “number,” although the two versions look alike on screen.
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ordernumber
Removing U+200B makes the stored character sequence match the visible word, which can restore exact searching, comparison, and validation.
It has no visible width, so a normal editor may give you no character to select or type into the search box. Reveal Hidden and Character Inspector identify it by position and Unicode code point.
Usually it changes only the hidden character sequence. However, joiners and non-joiners can control how some scripts or emoji render, so visually inspect language-sensitive text afterward.
No. Detection, cleaning, comparison, copying, and downloading run locally in your browser. TextSnoop does not send the working text to its server.
Private by design
Your pasted text and cleaned output are never sent to or stored by the site. Cleaning preferences stay in your browser. If you choose to send feedback, TextSnoop stores only your anonymous feedback message and submission time.
Read the full Privacy PolicyA zero-width space is a Unicode character that can separate or control text without taking up visible space. It may be inserted intentionally for language or layout support, or arrive unnoticed through copying and pasting. Although invisible, it can affect searching, matching, wrapping, validation, and source code.
Leave Remove invisible formatting selected, then choose Revise text. TextSnoop removes supported zero-width characters, joiners, soft hyphens, and related invisible markers. Review the result when working with languages or code where an invisible character may be intentional.
Some applications represent paragraphs through clipboard HTML, visual styling, or a single line break instead of an explicit blank row. The destination may ignore that structure when pasting. Restore paragraph spacing converts supported rich boundaries and likely missing gaps into explicit blank rows that email and Word can preserve more reliably.
It makes spaces, line endings, zero-width characters, and other supported markers visible in a separate view without changing the input.
It is a simple heuristic based on supported issue counts and text length. It is not a quality, authorship, or safety judgment.
Yes. Turn on Strip HTML and decode entities. TextSnoop removes recognized tags, decodes supported entities, and retains readable text and line breaks where possible. Complex layouts such as tables may still need review after their visual structure is removed.
Yes. Turn on Strip Markdown syntax. TextSnoop removes supported headings, lists, link syntax, emphasis, quotes, and code markers while keeping the readable content. Ambiguous punctuation that may be ordinary text is left unchanged when it cannot be identified safely.
Unicode can represent text that looks identical with different underlying character sequences. Normalization converts supported sequences into a consistent standard form, which can improve searching, comparison, validation, and compatibility. It does not translate the text or change its language.
NFC combines canonically equivalent character sequences while generally preserving meaningful distinctions. NFKC also folds many compatibility variants, such as certain width or presentation forms, into simpler equivalents. NFC is the safer default for most prose; use NFKC only when broader compatibility is more important than preserving those distinctions.
Yes, with care. Choose the Visual Studio or code editor destination and review the comparison before replacing your source. Turn off punctuation, HTML, Markdown, or NFKC changes unless you specifically want them, because whitespace, symbols, line endings, and Unicode distinctions can be meaningful in code.
Applications support different clipboard formats, fonts, styles, paragraph rules, and line-ending conventions. Copy For prepares a compatible version for the selected destination, but the receiving application ultimately controls how it renders the result.
Choose the destination application before copying. TextSnoop prepares compatible HTML or plain text and adjusts paragraph structure and line endings so paragraphs, lists, breaks, and spacing transfer as consistently as the destination allows.
No. Inspection and cleaning happen locally in your browser, and TextSnoop does not upload or store the text you paste or the cleaned result. If you submit feedback, only the feedback message and submission time are stored; your working text is not attached.
No. TextSnoop analyzes supported characters, spacing, punctuation, markup, and formatting patterns. Those patterns can appear in both human-written and AI-generated text, so they cannot establish who or what wrote it.
The tool removes only the specific characters and formatting selected in the cleaning rules. It does not claim to find or remove a universal AI watermark, change authorship, or defeat AI detection.