The reverse direction
Paste the left, get the right — this tool runs the opposite direction from every generator on this site.
Plain Text Converter
Paste text that was styled with bold, script, circled or similar Unicode characters and get plain text back. This uses an explicit, reviewed map of exactly which characters this tool’s own generator produces — not a blanket "strip anything unusual" pass, so real accents and non-Latin scripts are never touched.
What this can and can’t recover
- Bold, italic, script, fraktur, double-struck, monospace, fullwidth, circled, small caps, superscript and subscript characters convert back to their plain letter or digit.
- Styles that only exist in uppercase in Unicode (negative-circled, squared, negative-squared, small caps) convert back to an uppercase letter — the original case can’t be recovered, and we say so rather than guessing.
- Upside-down text is deliberately not auto-reversed for its letters that coincide with ordinary ASCII (b/q, d/p, n/u, and a few others) — reversing those would risk turning someone’s real, plain "q" into a "b". Its non-ASCII flip glyphs still convert back safely.
- Combining-mark styles (strikethrough, underline, overline, dotted) have their added mark stripped, without touching a real accent mark on the same letter.
Why use this instead of retyping the text
Retyping a long styled message means someone reads a screenful of unfamiliar Unicode characters and reconstructs the words by eye — slow, and easy to get wrong on long names or mixed-language text. This tool does the same reconstruction programmatically, from an explicit map, in the time it takes to paste. It's especially useful when someone sends you a styled message and you want to reply, quote, or search for it as plain text, or when you've styled something and want your original back after closing the tab where you drafted it.
Questions
Does this work on text I didn't generate with this site?
Usually yes, for the styles above — the reverse map is built from the actual Unicode characters those styles use, which are the same regardless of which tool originally produced them.
What happens to characters it doesn't recognize at all?
They're left exactly as they are — untouched, not deleted. The result panel reports how many characters were actually converted versus left unresolved, so you can see precisely what happened rather than getting a silently "cleaned" result.
Is my pasted text sent anywhere?
No — conversion runs entirely in your browser. See Privacy for exactly what this site does and doesn't send.