Remove Special Characters
Remove special characters, symbols and punctuation from text, keeping only letters and numbers (and optionally spaces and line breaks). Useful for slugs, IDs and clean data. Runs in your browser.
How to use Remove Special Characters: Open Remove Special Characters — it runs entirely in your browser with no setup. Paste or type your input into the text area, or upload a file where supported. Set any options you need. The result appears in the output panel — there is no upload step and no waiting on a server. Everything runs inside your browser, so your data never leaves your device.
Tip: drag a text file onto the box above to load it — drop several to append them in order.
Cleaned text
Remove special characters, symbols and punctuation from text, keeping only letters and numbers (and optionally spaces and line breaks). Useful for slugs, IDs and clean data. Runs in your browser. Remove Special Characters is a free, browser-based tool in the Filevane text tools collection — there is nothing to install, no account to create and no watermark on your results. It works on desktop, tablet and mobile, and because the work happens on your own device it stays fast even with large inputs.
How to use Remove Special Characters
- Open Remove Special Characters — it runs entirely in your browser with no setup.
- Paste or type your input into the text area, or upload a file where supported.
- Set any options you need. The result appears in the output panel — there is no upload step and no waiting on a server.
- Review the output instantly; large inputs are handled locally without lag.
- Copy the result to your clipboard or download it. Your data never leaves the page.
Why use Remove Special Characters?
- 100% free with no limits, no sign-up and no watermarks.
- Private by design — your data are processed in your browser and never uploaded to a server.
- Fast and lightweight, with instant results even on a phone or a slow connection.
- Works everywhere — any modern browser on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android or iOS.
- Part of a full text tools suite, so related remove special characters tasks are one click away.
Is it private and secure?
Your privacy is built in. Remove Special Characters runs completely on your device, so whatever you enter stays in your browser and is never transmitted, logged or stored on any server.
Network activity: none. Nothing is sent and nothing is fetched. This tool makes no network request at all once the page has loaded — which is why it keeps working if your connection drops.
You do not have to take that on trust — our privacy proof page publishes the Content-Security-Policy that enforces it, lists every third party it permits, and shows how to verify the whole claim yourself.
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Frequently asked questions
What counts as a special character?
Anything that isn’t a letter or number — punctuation, symbols and emojis. You can choose to keep spaces and line breaks.
Does it support non-English letters?
Yes. Letters from any language (accented characters, Cyrillic, CJK, etc.) are kept because matching is Unicode-aware.
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