Remove Special Characters from PDF Text
PDF text often contains invisible control characters, bullet symbols, and encoding artifacts that look like garbage characters. Paste your PDF text here to strip everything except letters, numbers, and standard punctuation.
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Remove Special Characters
Remove special characters like ©, ®, ™, emoji, and other non-standard symbols while preserving letters, numbers, spaces, and common punctuation.
Example
Input
Hello™ World® — Special© chars§ here¶
Output
Hello World Special chars here
How Remove Special Characters Works
Remove special characters like ©, ®, ™, emoji, and other non-standard symbols while preserving letters, numbers, spaces, and common punctuation.
This tool runs entirely in your browser — no data is sent to any server. Paste your text, click Run, and get your result instantly. You can also chain this tool with others using the pipeline feature: run Remove Special Characters, then continue with a related tool to build a multi-step text workflow.
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Example: Remove Special Characters from PDF Text
Input
Product™ Overview — Q3 Report ©2026 • Revenue: $1.2M § Growth: 15%¶
Output
Product Overview Q3 Report 2026 Revenue: $1.2M Growth: 15%
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