Content & Workflow
Word Counter & Text Cleaner
Paste any text to see its word, character and sentence counts and reading time as you type, then clean it up in one click: broken lines from PDFs, extra spaces, empty lines, quotes and capitalisation.
Watch the tutorial· 34 seconds, voice-over and captions
Transcript
- The Word Counter and Text Cleaner counts your text as you type.
- Paste your text. Words, characters, sentences, reading time and speaking time update straight away.
- Below, you can see your most used words.
- This text was copied from a PDF, so its lines are broken. Press Fix broken lines, and it reads normally again.
- Other buttons remove extra spaces or empty lines, or change the case. Every change can be undone.
- Then copy the clean text, or download it. Your text never leaves your browser.
Count words and clean up text
Live word, character, sentence and reading-time counts, and one-click fixes for messy text, especially text copied from PDFs.
- Type or paste your text. The counts update as you type: words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, reading and speaking time.
- Check the most used words, and the warning if a sentence is very long.
- Text copied from a PDF? Press Fix broken lines to join lines split mid-sentence and words split with a hyphen.
- Use Remove extra spaces, Remove empty lines, Make one paragraph, Remove bullets or Straight quotes as needed, or change the case.
- Every change can be undone. Copy the clean text or download it as a .txt file. Nothing leaves your browser.
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Most used words
Appear here as you type (common words like “the” are left out).
Reading time uses 238 words a minute and speaking time 130, common averages. Word counts can differ slightly from Word or Google Docs, which treat some symbols differently. Your text stays in this browser.