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OCR Text Cleaner — Fix Spacing & Formatting

Paste messy OCR output from scans, photos, or PDFs. Fix extra spaces, punctuation, broken lines, and watermark noise for Nepali Devanagari and English text.

Paste OCR text

Cleaning options

Cleaned text

This tool fixes formatting and removes likely OCR noise. Wrong words (e.g. "Affated" instead of "Affiliated") still need manual review. For best results, use the Nepali OCR Reader first, then clean here. Legacy Preeti encoding can be converted in the Preeti to Unicode Converter.

Clean Messy OCR Text Online

Scanned documents and photos often produce OCR text with double spaces, broken line breaks, misplaced punctuation, and random characters from watermarks or letterheads. This OCR text cleaner fixes those formatting problems in your browser — no upload required.

What it fixes

  • Extra spaces — single spaces between words instead of double or triple gaps
  • Punctuation spacing — `impact:` instead of `impact :`
  • Hyphens & apostrophes— `subject-specific`, `participants'`
  • Nepali danda — converts `|` to `।` where appropriate
  • Noise lines — removes short garbage from logos and watermarks
  • Broken lines — merges sentences split across multiple OCR lines

Suggested workflow

  1. Extract text with the Nepali OCR Reader
  2. Paste your OCR text at the top
  3. Tick the cleaning options you need
  4. Click Clean text and copy the result below

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: Can this fix wrong OCR words?
A: It fixes spacing and layout. Misspelled words from OCR still need manual correction or a clearer scan.
Q: Does it work with Nepali text?
A: Yes. Devanagari lines are preserved while noise and formatting issues are cleaned up.
Q: Is my text private?
A: Yes. Everything runs locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

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