Why this exists
PDF CleanText & Smart Format started as a personal annoyance: copying a paragraph out of a research paper or a contract and getting back a wall of text broken mid-sentence, full of stray hyphens, with a page number wedged into the middle of a thought. Fixing that by hand, one document at a time, in a text editor, got old fast. This tool exists so that step takes five seconds instead of five minutes, and so a scanned resume or a confidential contract never has to leave the browser tab it's opened in to get cleaned up.
What it does
Two things, deliberately, and nothing else:
- Text cleaner. Extracts the text layer from a PDF and repairs the damage that extraction causes: rejoining hyphenated words, merging wrapped lines back into paragraphs, dropping repeated running headers and footers, collapsing stray whitespace, and optionally formatting bullets and page markers into Markdown.
- Page extractor. Copies a page range out of a PDF into a new, smaller PDF, useful when a portal has a page-count or file-size limit and you only need to submit part of a document.
A full technical walkthrough of how each option works is on the How It Works page and in the field guide on the home page.
Who built it, and how
The tool is developed and maintained independently, outside of any larger company or product suite. It is a single web page: no build pipeline the visitor depends on, no user accounts, and no backend server that ever receives a copy of your file. PDF parsing is handled by Mozilla's open-source PDF.js library; page copying is handled by the open-source pdf-lib library. Both run entirely inside your browser tab. The cleanup logic itself, meaning the rules for rejoining hyphens, merging lines, and detecting running headers, was written specifically for this tool and is described in plain language on the How It Works page rather than hidden behind marketing language.
The site is supported by display advertising rather than a subscription or a paywall, so the core tool stays free and usable without an account. Ad placement is restricted to fixed slots around the tool and is never allowed inside the working area itself. Details are in the privacy policy.
Get in touch
Bug reports, feature requests, and, especially useful, documents that clean up badly are all welcome. If something comes out wrong, a short description of what the output should have looked like is more useful than a screenshot of what it did look like.
Email: ksrinfinitysiv@gmail.com
Related pages
- Field Guide: the full write-up on PDF extraction and formatting.
- Blog: articles on ATS resumes, AI data cleaning, ebooks, and more.
- How It Works: the technical detail behind each cleanup option.
- Privacy Policy: exactly what does and doesn't happen to your files.
- Terms of Service: the terms of using the tool.