Strip accents and diacritics from any text — á becomes a, ç becomes c — in your browser.
This tool strips diacritical marks from text: á, à, â, ã and ä all become a, é becomes e, ç becomes c, ñ becomes n — and so on for every accented Latin letter, uppercase or lowercase. It exists because plenty of systems still choke on accents: file names that break on upload, legacy databases and ERPs that expect plain ASCII, CSV imports that mangle encoding, e-mail systems, boarding-pass and banking forms, and any identifier that must contain only unaccented characters. Instead of retyping or fixing letters one by one, you paste the text and get the clean version in one click.
Under the hood it uses Unicode normalization, the same mechanism text engines rely on. The text is converted to NFD (Normalization Form Decomposed), which splits each accented character into its base letter plus a separate combining mark — "á" becomes "a" followed by the combining acute accent — and then every combining mark in the Unicode range U+0300 to U+036F is removed, leaving only the base letters. This handles the entire Latin diacritic family, including the cedilla, tilde, umlaut, circumflex and grave, and it preserves case: "São" becomes "Sao", not "sao".
The second button goes further: after removing accents, it also discards any character that is not a plain letter, digit, whitespace or basic punctuation — useful when the destination system rejects symbols, emoji or curly quotes. Note that the accent-only mode does not transliterate non-Latin alphabets: Greek or Cyrillic letters pass through unchanged, because they are different letters, not accented ones. Everything runs 100% in your browser, so the tool is safe for confidential documents.
They become c and a. The cedilla and the tilde are combining marks in Unicode, so NFD decomposition separates them from the base letter and the tool removes them.
No. Case is fully preserved — "Ávila" becomes "Avila". Only the accent marks are removed; every other aspect of the text stays intact.
Everything except letters a–z, digits, spaces, line breaks and basic punctuation such as periods, commas, hyphens, parentheses and quotes. Emoji, symbols and non-Latin letters are discarded in this mode.
The accent-only mode keeps them untouched — it removes marks, not characters. Use the second mode if you need a strictly basic-character output.
No. The conversion runs entirely in JavaScript on your device. Nothing you paste is transmitted, logged or stored anywhere.
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