What is Punctuation Remover?

Remove punctuation marks from text while keeping apostrophes or hyphens if needed.

How do I use Punctuation Remover?

Type or paste your data into the field on this page and press the button. The result is calculated instantly in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

Yes, Punctuation Remover is completely free. No signup, no downloads and no usage limits.

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Strip punctuation from any text instantly. Optionally keep apostrophes and hyphens, and see how many characters were removed. Free and private.

Input text

Keep apostrophes (')Keep hyphens (-)

Clean text

Letters, numbers and spaces are kept. Enable the keep options to preserve apostrophes and hyphens where they belong.

It strips every punctuation mark — like .,!?;:'"()[] — from the text and keeps letters, numbers, spaces and line breaks.

Yes. Tick 'Keep apostrophes' to preserve possessive and contraction apostrophes such as in isn't or John's.

Tick 'Keep hyphens' so compound words like well-known or 24-hour stay intact instead of merging into one word.

The tool reports the exact number of punctuation characters that were removed from your text, so you can compare input and output.

It is handy for cleaning text for machine learning, preparing data for scripts, or producing a simplified plain-text version of a document.

What is Punctuation Remover?
Remove punctuation marks from text while keeping apostrophes or hyphens if needed.
How do I use Punctuation Remover?
Type or paste your data into the field on this page and press the button. The result is calculated instantly in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Is Punctuation Remover free?
Yes, Punctuation Remover is completely free. No signup, no downloads and no usage limits.