Word counts, keyword lists and text fed to a script often need the punctuation gone. Deleting it by hand misses things, and a naive find-and-replace wrecks words such as don't and well-known.
This removes every punctuation mark in any language. It can keep apostrophes and hyphens that sit inside a word. Symbols such as currency and math signs go too if you want, and double spaces left behind are closed up.
How to use the Remove Punctuation tool
- Paste your text.
- Choose what to keep: apostrophes, hyphens, digits.
- Copy the cleaned text.
Popular uses
- Preparing text for word-frequency analysis
- Cleaning keywords and tags
- Stripping symbols from names for file names or IDs
Tips for the best result
- Keep apostrophes on for English, or "it's" turns into "its".
- Follow up with the Case Converter to make everything lower case.
Quick facts
| Price | Free |
|---|---|
| Works with | Text |
| Where it runs | In your browser, on your device |
| Account | Not needed |