Remove Arabic Diacritics: Arabic Text Cleaner

A free tool that removes diacritics (tashkeel), tatweel and extra spaces from Arabic text. Paste the text and the clean version appears at once, ready to copy.

Text with diacritics or tatweel does not match search terms or form fields. Each option works on its own, so only what you choose is changed.

Options

• Remove diacritics: fatha, damma, kasra, sukun, shadda, tanween and the small Quranic annotation marks.
• Remove tatweel (ـ) between letters.
• Remove extra spaces: repeated spaces, spaces at the start and end of a line, and repeated blank lines.
• Unify alef and yeh: أ, إ, آ and ٱ become ا, and ى becomes ي. This option starts off.

Limits

• Up to 20,000 characters at a time.
• Ta marbuta and hamza on waw or yeh (ؤ, ئ) are never changed.
• Visible Quranic signs such as ۝ and ۞ stay in the text.

Privacy

The text is cleaned inside your browser. It is not sent to any server and is not stored.

Questions

How do I remove diacritics from Arabic text?

Paste the text and leave “Remove diacritics” ticked. The text appears without vowel marks straight away, ready to copy.

What is tatweel (kashida) and why remove it?

It is the stroke that stretches a word, as in مـــرحبا. It breaks search and matching, because the stretched word is not equal to the plain one.

Are hamzas or ta marbuta changed?

Only if you turn on “Unify alef and yeh”, and then only the alef forms and alef maksura change. Ta marbuta is never changed.

Does it work on Quran text?

It removes vowel marks and small annotation signs, and keeps the end-of-ayah and sajdah signs. Always check Quran text against a trusted source.