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Remove Symbols From Text

Strip symbols and special characters, keeping letters and numbers.

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How do you remove symbols from text?

This cleaner keeps letters, digits and whitespace and drops everything else, so “25%_off!!” collapses to “25off”. Matching is Unicode-aware: accented letters like é and ü survive, as do characters from non-Latin scripts, while emoji, currency signs, brackets and maths symbols all go. It sits one step beyond a punctuation remover, which is the tool to reach for when you only want the commas and periods gone.

How to use the Remove Symbols

  1. 1 Paste anything containing stray symbols or emoji.
  2. 2 The output pane shows the same text with only letters, digits and spaces left.
  3. 3 Confirm accented characters survived, then copy.

What you can use it for

  • Cleaning special characters out of imported data.
  • Preparing plain text for a name or search field.
  • Stripping decorative symbols from copied text.
  • Sanitising input before further processing.

Frequently asked questions

What exactly gets stripped?
Everything outside letters, numbers and whitespace: punctuation, brackets, currency and maths signs, emoji and other special characters.
Will é, ü or 東 survive?
Yes. The filter works on Unicode categories, so accented letters and non-Latin scripts count as letters and stay in.
How is this different from removing punctuation?
This one clears every non-alphanumeric character in one sweep, invisible control characters included. The punctuation remover targets punctuation and symbol marks specifically, which in practice gives similar output on ordinary prose.

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Punctuation Remover Remove punctuation marks while keeping words and numbers. Remove Letter Delete every occurrence of a chosen letter or character. Remove Extra Whitespace Collapse multiple spaces, trim lines and strip blank lines from text.

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