Text & Writing Utilities · Free tool

Special Character Remover

Remove accents, emojis, punctuation, and non-ASCII characters from text. Pick exactly which categories to keep.

Updated April 2026

Input TextKeep these specific chars (raw list)

Before

153

After

118

Stripped

Output

Hello World This is a test  with special chars 
It also has digits 123 and hyphensunderscores like foobar and nicename

What it does

Remove accents, emojis, punctuation, symbols, or anything outside plain ASCII from a paste. Use category toggles to keep exactly what you need — letters, digits, basic punctuation, whitespace — and choose whether to strip or transliterate (é → e).

Useful for cleaning filenames (try filename cleaner), URL slugs (slug generator), or database keys. For invisible-char issues specifically, use invisible character detector.

How to use it

Paste the text.
Toggle which categories to keep: letters, digits, whitespace, punctuation.
Choose strip or transliterate for accents.
Copy the cleaned output.