Text & Writing Tools
Count, clean, convert and compare text without leaving your browser.
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About Text & Writing Tools
Text is the format everything else passes through. Whether you are trimming a draft to a word limit, cleaning up a paste that arrived full of stray line breaks, or checking what actually changed between two versions of a document, these tools handle the mechanical part so you can get back to the writing.
Every text tool on this page runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you paste is uploaded, logged, or stored on a server — which matters more than it sounds. Text you are working with is often unpublished: a contract clause, a cover letter, an internal memo, a password reset email. Pasting that into a random web form usually means handing a copy to someone else's database. Here the processing happens in the same tab you are already looking at.
The tools are built to handle the awkward real-world cases rather than the tidy demo case. Word counters that understand what a word is when your text contains hyphens, contractions and em dashes. Case converters that recognise sentence boundaries instead of blindly capitalising after every period. Duplicate removers that let you decide whether whitespace and capitalisation count as a difference.
If you write for the web, the counters and readability checks are worth building into your process. Search engines and social platforms all impose hard character limits, and the difference between a title that fits and one that gets truncated with an ellipsis is usually a handful of characters you can find in seconds here.
What actually counts as a word
Word counting sounds like it should have one correct answer, and it does not. Most software — including Microsoft Word, Google Docs and the tools here — splits text on whitespace and counts the resulting chunks. Under that rule a hyphenated compound like 'well-known' is one word and a contraction like 'don't' is one word, because neither contains a space.
Several editorial style guides disagree, counting hyphenated compounds as two. Numbers, dates, standalone symbols and URLs are handled inconsistently between tools. None of this matters until a limit is tight and a submission is rejected for being forty words over. When the count genuinely counts, ask what the recipient measures with and check in that tool.
Why pasted text arrives broken
Copying from a PDF, a formatted web page or an email frequently brings along things you cannot see: non-breaking spaces that look identical to normal ones, soft hyphens left over from justified typesetting, zero-width characters, and line breaks inserted at the end of every visual line rather than every paragraph.
These are why a paste that looks fine refuses to reflow, produces a strange word count, or breaks a search-and-replace that should obviously have matched. The line break remover and whitespace tools exist for exactly this, and pasting through a plain text editor first is a reliable way to strip formatting when something looks wrong and you cannot see why.
Frequently asked questions
Is the text I paste into these tools private?
Yes. Every text tool runs in your browser using JavaScript on your own device. Nothing you paste is transmitted to a server, logged, or stored. You can confirm this by opening your browser's developer tools, switching to the Network tab, and watching as you type — no request carries your text.
Do these tools work with languages other than English?
Mostly, yes. Character counting, case conversion, sorting and comparison work correctly for any language your browser can display, including non-Latin scripts. Word counting is the exception: it relies on spaces separating words, so it is accurate for Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Arabic and most languages, but not for Chinese, Japanese or Thai, which do not use spaces. Use the character count for those.
Is there a limit on how much text I can process?
There is no limit imposed by us, because we are not paying to transfer or store your text. The practical ceiling is your device's available memory, which comfortably handles a full-length novel. Very large documents may feel slightly less responsive on older phones since some tools recalculate on every keystroke.
Can these tools read a Word document or PDF directly?
Not yet — the text tools work on text you paste in. To count or analyse the contents of a document, extract the text first using the PDF to Text tool, then paste the result into whichever text tool you need.