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Markdown Cleaner

Paste whatever a chatbot put on your clipboard — even after Bear, Notion, Google Docs, or another tool in the round-trip chain has mutated it. The Cleaner normalizes heading hierarchy, bullet markers, list spacing, table format, and special characters into AIX-conformant output, and flags structural ghosts that copy-chain damage leaves behind.

Input · paste from chatbot
Output · AIX-conformant markdown 







Try a chatbot example:








      Tip: press ⌘ + Enter to clean.
    












What the Cleaner does


13 transformations, applied in order.


    

  1. Strip invisible characters: U+2011 non-breaking hyphens, U+2800 Braille pattern blanks, U+200B zero-width spaces, U+2060 word joiners, U+00AD soft hyphens, U+FEFF BOMs.
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  2. Remove backslash-escaped periods from numbered list markers (1\. → 1.).
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  3. Convert bold-on-its-own-line pseudo-headings into real H2 or H3 headings (**1. LangGraph** → ## 1. LangGraph, **Key Features** → ### Key features).
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  4. Normalize subsection labels: ### Key Features: → ### Key features (sentence case, no colon).
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  5. Replace asterisk and plus bullets with ASCII hyphen-minus.
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  6. Remove blank lines between adjacent same-level list items.
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  7. Normalize nested-list indentation — tabs and 4-space → 2-space.
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  8. Replace ***, ___, and long dash runs with ---.
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  9. Reformat tables: ensure alignment row, single-space cell padding, no decorative bold around canonical values, convert glyph cells (✓, ✗, ●, 🟢, 🔴, 🟡) to Yes, No, Partial.
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  10. Normalize emphasis: _italic_ → *italic* and __bold__ → **bold** (skipping code blocks, inline code, and identifiers).
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  11. Remove unnecessary backslash escapes (\, \! \? etc.).
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  12. Collapse 3+ consecutive blank lines into one blank.
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  13. Trim trailing whitespace from every line.
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      Each transformation is fully reversible by inspection. The Cleaner does not lose content — it only normalizes form. Round-trip detection runs alongside as a heuristic warning: if the cleaned markdown references “a comparison table” or “the following code” but no such structure exists in the input, the Cleaner flags it as possible copy-loss from the chatbot interface.
    



      Deferred to v0.2: heading-hierarchy auto-repair, citation format normalization, summary-section wrapping, indented-to-fenced code block conversion. These require more semantic judgment than is safe to automate in v0.1.