What counts as punctuation?

Anything in Unicode's Punctuation or Symbol categories — commas, periods, slashes, brackets, currency signs, math symbols, etc.

Remove Punctuation

Remove all punctuation and symbols, or keep sentence-ending marks (. ! ?) for readability.

Keep sentence enders (.!?)

Input Result

Load file

Unix (LF) Dos (CRLF)

How to use Remove Punctuation

Paste your text.
Toggle 'Keep sentence enders' if you need the result still readable.
Copy.

What is Remove Punctuation?

Cleaning punctuation is useful when normalizing text for analysis — for tokenization, keyword extraction, or building search indexes. The Unicode-aware mode handles punctuation in any script (Chinese, Arabic, etc.), not just ASCII.

FAQ

What counts as punctuation?: Anything in Unicode's Punctuation or Symbol categories — commas, periods, slashes, brackets, currency signs, math symbols, etc.

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