Text Cleaner for Google Docs

A free Google Docs add-on that fixes text pasted from PDFs, web pages and other documents, sorts lists and changes case.

What it fixes

• Lines broken by copying from a PDF, including words split with a hyphen at the line end
• Double spaces, spaces before punctuation, tabs, non-breaking and zero-width characters
• Quotes, dashes and ellipses, in either direction: straight or curly, hyphen or dash
• Extra blank paragraphs and leftover fonts and colours from web pages

Also

• Sort paragraphs or a list A to Z, Z to A, or by number (Item 2 before Item 10); remove duplicates
• Change case: Sentence case, Title Case, UPPERCASE, lowercase

How to use it

1. Select the text to fix.
2. Open Extensions → Text Cleaner and choose Clean selected text, or a single command such as Remove line breaks.
3. Choose what to keep and remove in Configure…. Your settings are remembered.

Used a text-cleaning add-on that stopped working? You'll find the same kind of commands here, built on Google's current platform.

To undo, press Ctrl+Z (⌘Z on Mac), or restore from File → Version history.

Permissions

Text Cleaner can only see and edit the document you open it in. It has no server and sends your text nowhere. See the privacy policy.