Pastemagic - paste with desired formatting, fix linebreaks, instant OCR
Fixes your paste problems with text -- paste without formatting, remove line breaks from paragraphs, and even convert images to text (OCR). 100% free.
Pastemagic - paste with desired formatting, fix linebreaks, instant OCR launched on April 25, 2018 with 10 votes, #899 of 2,753 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
In plain words
Pastemagic is a free web tool that solves common pasting problems by removing unwanted formatting, eliminating line breaks from paragraphs, and converting images to text through OCR. It helps researchers, writers, and anyone assembling content from multiple sources quickly prepare text for word processors without manual cleanup. The tool automates tedious formatting fixes that typically arise when copying from web pages, PDFs, and scanned documents.
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From the sources
Convert clipboard text to paste into your word processor just the way you want. 100% free! Pastemagic’s creator was putting together a research paper, assembling content from various sources (web pages, PDF’s, book scans online) and constantly getting super-frustrated with having to constantly fix formatting, delete linebreaks, and manually type out text. Ugh! But then he realized you could build a webpage to automate all of it, and voilà — Pastemagic was born. “Paste without formatting” removes all formatting, including formatting that might be important to keep — like italics or links. Pastemagic allows you to choose the formatting you want to keep. It defaults to just italics…from pastemagic.com
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