Arabic Text Cleaner

Why pasted Arabic misbehaves

Arabic copied out of a PDF very often refuses to behave. It will not match when you search it, it breaks when you paste it into a worksheet, and the letters sometimes look right on screen while being stored as something else entirely. That is almost never your fault — it is what the file put on the clipboard.

Presentation forms

Many PDFs store each letter in the shape it happened to be printed in, rather than storing the letter itself. So a word that reads perfectly is actually made of characters no keyboard can type, which is why searching for it finds nothing. This tool folds those back to ordinary letters.

Invisible characters

Zero-width joiners, direction marks and byte-order marks survive a copy and paste and are completely invisible, so two words that look identical simply do not match. They are removed here.

Harakat, tatweel and spelling variants

Remove tashkeel when you want a clean reading text, or strip the tatweel that stretches letters for justification. The spelling toggles fold أ إ آ to ا, ى to ي and ة to ه — which you want when building a matching exercise or a search list, where those pairs should count as the same letter, and do not want when the spelling itself is being taught.

Nothing is uploaded

Every transform runs inside your own browser. The text never reaches a server, which matters if you are cleaning up a pupil's work or unpublished material.