About the Remove Punctuation
Remove punctuation such as periods, commas, quotes and brackets, leaving letters, numbers and whitespace untouched.
Key features
- Removes punctuation and symbols from text
- Optionally keeps apostrophes so contractions stay intact
- Unicode-aware: handles curly quotes, dashes and foreign punctuation
- Collapses leftover double spaces
- Letters, numbers and line breaks preserved
- Instant and private
Strip punctuation from text
Punctuation is essential for reading but gets in the way of text analysis, keyword research, data cleaning and machine learning. Remove Punctuation removes it in one step, leaving clean words.
Example
Hello, world! It's a (great) day — isn't it? #tools @xutilhub
becomes (apostrophes kept):
Hello world It's a great day isn't it tools xutilhub
Use cases
| Task | Why remove punctuation |
|---|---|
| Word counting and frequency | day, and day should count as the same word |
| SEO keyword lists | Clean phrases for keyword tools |
| Machine learning / NLP | Standard text-preprocessing step |
| Slugs and file names | Many symbols aren't allowed |
| Search indexing | Normalize queries and content |
| Usernames / tags | Keep only letters and numbers |
Unicode-aware
Simple tools only remove ASCII punctuation and miss characters such as “ ” ‘ ’ — … « ». This tool uses Unicode categories (punctuation P and symbols S), so typographic quotes, dashes and punctuation from other languages are removed too.
Related tools
Count words afterwards with the Word Frequency Counter, strip accents with Remove Accents, or change case with the Case Converter.
How to use the Remove Punctuation
- Type or paste your text into the input box.
- Choose the options you want.
- The result updates instantly as you type.
- Copy the output or download it as a .txt file.