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Special Character Remover

Keep only letters, digits and spaces, stripping every other character from your text.

Keep letters, digits and spaces

Paste text to remove its special characters.
Line breaks are always preserved so the shape of your document survives.

How to use the Special Character Remover

  1. Paste the text that contains special characters.
  2. Choose whether spaces and accented letters should be kept.
  3. Copy the reduced text with the Copy button.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about the free online special character remover.

Paste your text and every character that is not a letter, a digit or a space is deleted, leaving clean readable words behind.
Punctuation, symbols, emoji and invisible control characters. Letters and digits in any script are always kept.
They are kept by default because an accented letter is still a letter. Clear the accents option and only plain ASCII letters stay.
Yes. Clear Keep spaces and only letters and digits survive, which is handy for building slugs, codes and file names.
Yes. Line breaks are always kept so the number of lines and the structure of your document stay the same.
Yes. Emoji sit outside the letter and digit ranges, so they are removed along with the other special characters.
Yes. Digits are kept by this tool. Use the number remover instead when you want the digits gone.
No. Filtering runs entirely in your browser and no part of your text is uploaded or stored.

Last updated: October 10, 2026