Punctuation Remover

How to use

1. 1Paste your text into the input area, or click one of the sample buttons to try the tool on common inputs.
2. 2Pick a preset (Remove all punctuation, Keep apostrophes, NLP tokenization prep, Drop sentence enders only, or Strip quotes only) or set the replacement and per-class toggles by hand.
3. 3Choose how to replace each mark: remove entirely for tight output, replace with a space for tokenization, or set a custom string like _ or [REMOVED].
4. 4Toggle Preserve numbers like 1,234.56 to keep numeric formatting, and Preserve URLs to keep links intact.
5. 5Copy the cleaned text or click Replace input with output to run another pass on the result.

About this tool

Punctuation Remover strips punctuation from any pasted text in your browser, with independent toggles for each class of punctuation so you only remove what you mean to. Sentence enders (period, question mark, exclamation, plus Unicode equivalents like the Spanish inverted marks and CJK full stop), comma family (comma, semicolon, colon, plus localized variants), every kind of quote (straight, curly, single and double guillemets, CJK corner brackets, low-9 quotes), apostrophes broken out as their own class so you can keep words like don't and it's readable while still removing decorative quotation marks elsewhere, brackets and parens including angle brackets and CJK lenticular brackets, dashes and hyphens (hyphen, em dash, en dash, figure dash, horizontal bar, minus sign), slashes and bars (forward slash, backslash, pipe, fraction slash), math and bullet symbols (plus, equals, star, ampersand, percent, tilde, plus-minus, multiplication, division, bullet), currency signs across many scripts (dollar, pound, euro, yen, rupee, ruble, bitcoin), other ASCII symbols (at sign, hash, underscore, backtick, section, pilcrow, copyright, trademark, degree), and the ellipsis class which collapses runs of three or more dots and the single character ellipsis into the same replacement. Choose to remove each matched mark entirely, replace it with a single space (the safer default for tokenization workflows), or use any custom replacement string. Two precision options let you preserve real-world structure while cleaning: keep commas and dots inside numbers like 1,234.56 (including signed numbers and percentages) and keep punctuation inside http(s), ftp, and ws URLs and www. hostnames intact. Whitespace cleanup collapses the runs of spaces that punctuation removal leaves behind, with an optional per-line trim that preserves line breaks. A live found-in-input panel reports how many marks of each class your text actually contains so you can tell at a glance what is about to change, and a stats row shows total marks removed, input and output length, and the net character change. Useful for NLP and search index preprocessing, generating clean keyword lists from headlines, preparing text for password phrases, normalizing pasted lists, and any text-cleanup workflow where you need precise control instead of a one-button strip. All processing happens locally on your device; the text you paste never leaves the browser.

Free to use. Works in your browser. No signup, no login.