Plain Text Counter
Count words and characters in plain text without formatting or special characters.
Text copied out of a Word document or pasted from a web page often carries more than what's visible on screen, curly quotes, non-breaking spaces, leftover formatting markers, characters that inflate a raw count without actually being part of what a reader would see as the real content. This tool counts words and characters in plain text specifically, stripping out formatting and special characters first so the count reflects only genuinely visible content rather than whatever hidden characters happened to tag along during a copy and paste.
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Useful for getting an accurate word count on text pasted from a formatted document before submitting it somewhere with a strict limit, cleaning hidden formatting characters out of pasted content before counting it, or confirming a plain text count that isn't quietly skewed by invisible characters a normal editor wouldn't show.
Key features
- Clean interface
- Fast processing
- No signup required
- Works offline