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Remove Punctuation

Strip punctuation marks, special characters, and symbols from text. Customisable — keep what you need.

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About Remove Punctuation

Useful for NLP preprocessing, cleaning survey responses, or stripping markdown. Use the "Keep these chars" field to preserve specific characters that would otherwise be removed (e.g. hyphens in compound words or apostrophes in contractions).

FAQ

Does it remove numbers?
Only if you enable the "Remove numbers" checkbox. By default, numbers are preserved.
What if I want to keep hyphens in words?
Type a hyphen (-) into the "Keep these chars" field and it will be excluded from removal.
Is accent removal included?
No — for accent removal use the dedicated Remove Letter Accents tool.