Remove Punctuation — Strip Symbols & Special Characters
Strip Unicode punctuation and symbols from text. Optional keep apostrophes, hyphens, periods; whitespace collapse.
How to use
- 1 Paste any text into the input.
- 2 Default strips all Unicode punctuation and symbols (\p{P} and \p{S}).
- 3 Toggle to keep apostrophes, hyphens, or periods if needed.
- 4 Copy the cleaned text.
Why use this tool
- Unicode-aware — removes punctuation from any script, not just ASCII.
- Keep-apostrophes preserves contractions like "don't" intact.
- Keep-periods preserves sentence boundaries.
- Optional whitespace collapse cleans up the empty gaps left behind.
Frequently asked questions
What counts as punctuation?
Anything in the Unicode \p{P} category — periods, commas, brackets, dashes, quotes — plus \p{S} symbols (currency, math, other symbols like %, $, ©). Letters, digits, and whitespace are kept.
Does it remove emoji?
Yes — most emoji are in the \p{S} symbol category. Letters and digits inside an emoji ZWJ sequence may survive; turn off the toggle later if you want them out too.
How is "Keep apostrophes" applied?
Both straight ' and curly ’ survive when enabled. All other punctuation in the same character is still removed.
Related?
Use Whitespace Remover to also normalize spacing, or Remove Accents to convert é, ü, ñ to plain ASCII first.
What is Remove Punctuation?
A Remove Punctuation tool is a tool that strips Unicode punctuation and symbols from text. It offers options to keep apostrophes, hyphens, and periods, and to collapse whitespace after removal. Running entirely in the browser, it cleans text of special characters and symbols without uploading anything to a server, useful for normalizing input before analysis, search, or further processing.
Remove Punctuation is a free creador utility by Zerethon Tools. Strip Unicode punctuation and symbols from text. Optional keep apostrophes, hyphens, periods; whitespace collapse. Runs entirely in the browser — no signup, no upload.
- Category
- Creador
- Pricing
- Free
- Privacy
- Browser-based
- Signup
- Not required
Privacy
Your data never leaves your browser unless explicitly stated. Remove Punctuation runs entirely client-side — no server upload, no logging, no tracking of your input.
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