What counts as punctuation?

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

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No. The tool runs entirely in your browser — your text never leaves your device, and nothing is stored or transmitted.

Can I keep sentence-ending punctuation like periods and question marks?

Yes. There's an option to preserve sentence-ending marks (. ! ?) while removing all other punctuation and symbols.

Remove Punctuation

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

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Keep sentence enders (.!?)

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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.

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What counts as punctuation?: Anything in Unicode's Punctuation or Symbol categories — commas, periods, slashes, brackets, currency signs, math symbols, etc.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?: No. The tool runs entirely in your browser — your text never leaves your device, and nothing is stored or transmitted.
Can I keep sentence-ending punctuation like periods and question marks?: Yes. There's an option to preserve sentence-ending marks (. ! ?) while removing all other punctuation and symbols.

Remove Punctuation

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