Copied text is always a mess.
Paste it here, get it back clean.
CopyTidy is a small browser-based toolkit for pasted text — clean, convert, and compare text without uploading it. Whether your text came from a PDF, an OCR scan, a report, an academic paper, an email thread, or a web page, everything runs on your device. We do not upload or store your text.
- Students citing sources
- Researchers quoting papers
- Writers reusing drafts
- Engineers pasting docs
First tool: Fix text copied from PDFs
The first CopyTidy tool repairs the specific damage PDFs do to copied text: a line break after every visual line, words split by end-of-line hyphens, and spacing that drifts around punctuation. Lists, headings, and table rows are detected and left alone.
Clean copied PDF text →Exactly what gets fixed
Lines rejoined into paragraphs
copied\nfrom a PDF becomes copied from a PDF — hard wraps go, real paragraph breaks stay.
Hyphen-split words repaired
compu-\ntational becomes computational. Dashes used as punctuation are not touched.
Spacing tidied
Runs of spaces collapse to one, word , word becomes word, word, and extra blank lines shrink to a single break.
Structure preserved
Bullet points, numbered items, headings, code, and table-like rows are recognized and kept on their own lines.
Rule-based, not rewritten
Every fix above is a deterministic find-and-repair rule — the same input always produces the same output, and your wording never changes. There is no AI rewriting and no server round trip: the page ships the cleaning logic as JavaScript and runs it on your device. We do not upload or store your text.