Text Formatter

AI-powered online text formatter - clean messy text, convert to Markdown, or strip to plain text.

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Convert to Markdown

Adds headings, bullets, and bold using Markdown symbols. Focuses on adding structure, not changing your words. Use for GitHub, Notion, Obsidian, Reddit, or any tool that uses Markdown.

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Clean Messy Text

Fixes mechanical damage - broken characters, weird spacing, odd line breaks. Your wording, grammar, and spelling should be preserved as you wrote them. Perfect for text copied from PDFs, emails, or web pages.

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Proofread

Corrects grammar, spelling, typos, and punctuation. Aims to keep your voice and style intact - it corrects rather than rewrites. Use for a final polish before sending.

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Strip to Plain Text

Removes all formatting - Markdown, HTML, bold, italics - leaving just the words. Paragraph breaks are kept so it stays readable. Ideal for pasting into emails, forms, or database fields.

AI transforms are occasionally imperfect - we recommend reviewing the output before using it.

Frequently Asked Questions

A text formatter is a tool that takes raw, unstructured, or messy text and transforms it into a clean, readable format. Whether you're dealing with copy-pasted web content, exported data, ChatGPT responses, or rough notes - a text formatter cleans it up automatically. Format Magic's text formatter uses AI to understand the intent of your content, not just regex patterns. It can detect structure, fix grammar in context, and output the format you actually need - Markdown, clean prose, or plain text.

Markdown is a lightweight markup language used by developers, technical writers, and content creators. It uses simple symbols (like # for headings, ** for bold, and - for lists) to define formatting. Markdown is used in GitHub, Notion, Obsidian, Reddit, and many documentation tools. To convert text to Markdown, paste your text into Format Magic's text formatter and click 'Convert to Markdown' - the AI will automatically identify headings, lists, key terms, and structure.

Paste your messy text into the input box and click 'Clean Messy Text'. The AI will fix grammar and spelling mistakes, remove double spaces and extra blank lines, normalize punctuation and capitalization, and return clean, readable prose - without changing your content or meaning.

Paste your text into the input box and click 'Strip to Plain Text'. Format Magic will remove Markdown symbols, HTML tags, special characters, and formatting clutter, returning clean plain text ready to paste into emails, forms, databases, or any other application.

Why Use an Online Text Formatter?

Most text formatting tools rely on simple find-and-replace or regex patterns. They can strip whitespace or swap characters, but they don't understand your content. An AI text formatter reads your text in context, detecting structure, fixing grammar, and applying the right formatting automatically.

Common use cases:

Clean up ChatGPT or AI output - remove artifacts, fix inconsistent formatting, and get polished prose
Prepare text for GitHub, Notion, or docs - convert raw notes into structured Markdown with proper headings and lists
Strip formatting from web copy or emails - get clean plain text ready to paste anywhere
Fix messy PDF or DOCX extractions - repair broken line breaks, garbled punctuation, and lost structure

No software to install. This text formatter runs in your browser on any device. Paste your text, pick a transform, and get clean results in seconds.

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Format Magic's full platform goes far beyond simple text cleanup. It converts your raw text into professionally formatted Word or PDF documents - proposals, reports, resumes, cover letters, and more.

Choose from dozens of professionally designed templates
AI formats headings, tables, bullet points, and sections automatically
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Customize any template
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Usage is measured in characters - page counts below are approximate, to make limits easier to read. Your monthly budget is shared with Format Magic, so characters used on the text formatter reduce what's available for full document formatting, and vice versa.

Student or educator? Discounted plans are available with a valid academic email - see education pricing.

Feature	Free $0 USD / month No credit card required	Basic ~~$9.95~~ $6.96 USD / month first month, then $9.95/mo	Pro ~~$14.95~~ $10.46 USD / month first month, then $14.95/mo	Premium ~~$19.95~~ $13.96 USD / month first month, then $19.95/mo
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Text Formatter
Transforms per month*	~35 pages75,000 characters	~200 pages400,000 characters	~750 pages1,500,000 characters	~2,500 pages5,000,000 characters
Max per transform*	~5 pages10,000 characters	~25 pages50,000 characters	~50 pages100,000 characters	~75 pages150,000 characters
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Image extraction from PDF and Word files	First 5 images
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*Output length is an estimate based on average document content and varies with the number of headings, tables, images and so on.