Plain Text Generator

Remove all formatting and convert your text to clean, simple plain text

Why Use Our Plain Text Generator?

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Remove All Formatting

Strip away all styling, fonts, colors, and special formatting from your text to get clean, simple content that works anywhere.

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Instant Conversion

Get plain text in seconds with our lightning-fast processor that handles even large documents efficiently.

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Privacy Focused

Your text never leaves your browser. All processing happens locally for maximum security and privacy.

What is Plain Text?

Plain text refers to unformatted textual data that contains no styling, fonts, colors, or other rich text elements. It's the simplest form of text representation, consisting only of standard characters without any additional markup or formatting instructions.

When to Use Plain Text

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Plain Text Generator FAQs

Our plain text generator removes all formatting from your text including:

  • Font styles (bold, italic, underline)
  • Font sizes and colors
  • Hyperlinks and HTML tags
  • Special characters and hidden formatting
  • Line spacing and paragraph formatting
  • Any other rich text elements

It leaves you with just the raw, unformatted text content.

While most applications offer a "Paste as plain text" option, our tool provides several advantages:

  1. You can preview the plain text result before using it
  2. It handles more complex formatting that some paste methods might miss
  3. You can process large amounts of text at once
  4. Additional options like downloading the plain text as a file
  5. Works consistently across all browsers and platforms

Yes! Our plain text generator is excellent for converting HTML to plain text. It will:

  • Remove all HTML tags while preserving the text content
  • Convert HTML entities to their character equivalents
  • Handle complex HTML structures like tables and lists
  • Maintain basic readability while stripping all markup

This makes it perfect for extracting text from web pages or cleaning up HTML-formatted content.

Our tool can handle very large amounts of text (up to 1MB) because all processing happens in your browser. There's no server-side processing, so:

  • No waiting for server responses
  • No network limitations
  • Performance depends only on your device's capabilities

For extremely large documents (novels, research papers, etc.), the processing might take a few seconds, but it will complete successfully.

While Notepad is a great plain text editor, our online tool offers several benefits:

Feature Our Tool Notepad
Formatting removal More thorough and consistent Basic paste-as-text only
HTML handling Excellent at stripping HTML Shows raw HTML tags
Convenience Web-based, no installation Requires application
Additional features Copy/download options Basic text editing only