Remove Strikethrough from Text
Paste text that has been crossed out, underlined or written in a fancy Unicode font and get ordinary, searchable plain text back. Useful for cleaning up copied tweets, bios, usernames and comments.
What the remover does
Unicode strikethrough, underline, overline and similar effects are made by inserting invisible combining marks after each letter. The remover deletes every combining mark in the Combining Diacritical Marks, Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols and Combining Half Marks blocks, which covers all the styles produced by the strikethrough text generator and by other generators.
It also normalises "fancy font" letters. Bold, italic, cursive, gothic, monospace and double-struck letters are separate code points in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block; the remover applies Unicode compatibility decomposition, which maps each of them back to the ordinary letter it looks like. Circled, fullwidth and superscript letters are converted the same way.
What it does not change
- Accented letters typed normally (é, ñ, ü) are preserved. The remover only strips marks that are combining characters; precomposed accented letters are decomposed and recomposed, so they come out unchanged.
- Emoji, punctuation, numbers and spacing are left as they are.
- Real formatting (a strikethrough applied in Word or Google Docs) is not text and is never pasted into the box in the first place; just paste the text and it arrives clean.
Why text might still look odd afterwards
If a message was built from look-alike characters that are not in the mathematical block (for example Cyrillic letters chosen to resemble Latin ones, or symbols from the Letterlike block), they are not decorations of a base letter and cannot be mapped back automatically. Those are rare in strikethrough text but common in "aesthetic" fonts.