Remove Punctuation

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Paste your text and instantly strip out punctuation and symbols. Fine-tune what to keep, then copy or download the result. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

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Remove punctuation and symbols from any text — strip commas, periods, quotes, brackets, slashes and more, with options to keep sentence punctuation, apostrophes or hyphens, collapse spaces and lowercase. Runs entirely in your browser. Free.

About Remove Punctuation

Remove Punctuation strips punctuation marks and symbols from any text — commas, periods, quotes, brackets, slashes, hashes and more — the instant you paste it. A counter shows exactly how many characters were removed, and the clean result can be copied or downloaded as a .txt file.

Keep-rules give you fine control: preserve sentence punctuation ( . ! ? , ; : ), keep apostrophes so contractions like “don’t” stay readable, or keep hyphens in words like “well-known”. Two finishing options collapse the extra spaces left behind and lowercase the entire result.

It is commonly used to prepare text for word-frequency analysis, search indexing, machine-learning preprocessing and simplified reading exercises. Everything runs in your browser — your text is never uploaded, and the tool is free.

How to use Remove Punctuation

  1. Type or paste your text — the punctuation-free version appears instantly.
  2. Toggle the keep-rules for sentence punctuation, apostrophes or hyphens as needed.
  3. Optionally collapse extra spaces and lowercase the result.
  4. Check how many characters were removed, then copy the result or download it as .txt.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Turn on “Keep sentence punctuation” and the core marks ( . ! ? , ; : ) survive while other symbols — hashes, brackets, slashes, ampersands — are stripped out.

By default the apostrophe is removed, producing “dont”. Enable “Keep apostrophes” to preserve contractions and possessives exactly as written.

Lowercasing plus punctuation removal is a standard text-normalization step before word counting, search indexing or machine-learning preprocessing, because it makes “Hello,” and “hello” identical tokens.

It can, when a stripped mark sat between spaces. Switch on “Collapse extra spaces” and consecutive spaces are merged into single ones automatically.

Yes on both counts. It is free with no sign-up, and the stripping runs entirely in your browser — nothing you paste is uploaded to a server.
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