Remove Special Characters
Remove special characters, keeping letters, numbers, and spaces.
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About this tool
Usernames, file names, database fields, and form inputs often reject characters like @, #, or emoji — but pasted text brings them along anyway. This tool strips everything that is not a letter, number, or space, leaving clean, safe text behind.
Unlike the punctuation remover, it also catches symbols, emoji, and control characters, making it the stricter option when the destination system is picky about what it accepts.
How to use
- Paste your text into the input area.
- Special characters are removed automatically with a live preview.
- Toggle whether to keep basic punctuation if you need it.
- Copy or download the sanitized text.
Frequently asked questions
Letters (including accented characters), digits, and spaces. Everything else — symbols, emoji, punctuation, control characters — is removed unless you enable the keep-punctuation option.
Remove Punctuation only strips punctuation marks. This tool is stricter: it also removes symbols like @ # $ %, emoji, and invisible control characters.
Yes. It produces alphanumeric-plus-space output that is safe for most username, filename, and database field rules. Replace spaces with dashes afterward if the system disallows spaces.