Strip Special Chars
Remove all special characters from text — keep only letters, numbers, and spaces for clean identifiers. Free, instant, client-side text cleaner.
🔒 100% Client-Side Processing
Your data is processed entirely in your browser and never transmitted to any server.
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Common Use Cases
Sanitizing filenames
Remove the characters that break file systems and uploads, keeping letters, numbers, and spaces.
Preparing search keys
Reduce product codes and user input to alphanumerics before fuzzy matching.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Which characters survive the cleaning?
- Letters a–z and A–Z, digits 0–9, spaces, and line breaks. Everything else — punctuation, symbols, emoji, accented characters — is removed entirely.
- When is alphanumeric-only text needed?
- Sanitising file names and identifiers, preparing text for systems that reject special characters, cleaning user input for simple search matching, and generating safe codes from arbitrary strings.
- Is my data private when I use this tool?
- Yes. This tool runs entirely in your browser using client-side JavaScript — nothing you type is transmitted to, logged by, or stored on any server. You can safely process confidential text, tokens, or code.