Extract readable text from HTML fragments copied from a web page, email template, content system, or generated response. TextSnoop removes supported markup and decodes common entities without sending the source to a server.
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.
HTML text cleaner guide
HTML combines visible words with tags, attributes, entities, scripts, and styles. Simply deleting angle brackets can leave unreadable fragments or merge blocks that were visually separated in a browser.
This preset enables Strip HTML and decode entities. It removes recognized tags, drops script and style blocks, converts line-break and common closing block tags to line breaks, and decodes common named and numeric entities such as `&`, ` `, and `'`.
Paste source markup rather than a screenshot. The Analysis panel reports supported tags and entities that can be cleaned.
The HTML cleaning rule is enabled for this page. Keep Markdown stripping separate unless the source genuinely contains both formats.
Compare the result and restore labels, columns, or hierarchy when the original depended on layout rather than readable text.
Before
<p>Hello <strong>world</strong>.</p>
The paragraph and strong tags provide HTML structure, while ` ` represents a non-breaking space.
After
Hello world.
The tags are removed, the entity becomes a standard space, and the visible sentence remains as plain text.
No. The cleaner treats pasted markup as text. It removes supported script and style blocks rather than rendering or executing them.
Supported numeric entities are decoded along with common named entities for ampersands, apostrophes, angle brackets, non-breaking spaces, and quotation marks.
The readable anchor text remains, but HTML attributes such as `href` are removed with the tag. Copy important destinations separately if the URLs must be retained.
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.