Copy Clean Text

About

Copy Clean Text is a lightweight text-cleaning extension for everyday writing, research, notes, job applications, emails, resumes, forms, and documents.

When you copy text from websites, PDFs, documents, chats, or online tools, it often includes awkward line breaks, repeated spaces, smart quotes, strange bullet characters, and messy formatting. Copy Clean Text helps you quickly turn that copied content into cleaner plain text.

You can paste messy text into the extension popup, choose what to clean, and copy the cleaned result. You can also select text on a webpage, right-click, and choose “Copy clean text” to copy a cleaner version of the selected text.

What Copy Clean Text can clean:

- Extra spaces
- Unwanted line breaks
- Smart quotes
- Long dashes
- Bullet characters
- Messy spacing from copied content

Common use cases:

- Clean text copied from PDFs
- Remove awkward line breaks from copied articles
- Clean copied website text before pasting into Google Docs
- Prepare cleaner notes for studying or research
- Clean text before pasting into emails
- Clean resume or cover letter content
- Remove formatting noise from copied job descriptions
- Copy cleaner text into forms, documents, chats, and editors

Key features:

- Popup text cleaner
- Right-click menu for selected text
- Remove line breaks
- Remove repeated spaces
- Replace smart quotes with plain quotes
- Clean bullet formatting
- Copy cleaned output quickly
- Simple interface
- No account required
- Works locally in your browser

Why use Copy Clean Text?

Copying text should be simple, but pasted content is often messy. This extension is built for people who write, research, study, apply for jobs, manage notes, prepare documents, or frequently move text between websites and editors.

Instead of manually fixing spaces, line breaks, quotes, and bullet characters, use Copy Clean Text to clean the content in one step.

Privacy:

Copy Clean Text is designed to be privacy-friendly. The extension does not collect, sell, or transmit your text. Text cleaning happens locally in your browser. The extension does not require an account and does not send your copied text to a server.

Permissions explanation:

- contextMenus: Adds a right-click option so you can clean selected text.
- activeTab: Allows the extension to work on the current tab only when you use the context menu action.
- scripting: Helps copy cleaned selected text from the active page.
- storage: May be used to save cleaning preferences locally.

Copy Clean Text is part of JobKit, a collection of practical tools for productivity, career workflows, writing, and focused work.