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Remove Accents

Remove Accents — a fast, free text utility that runs entirely in your browser.

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About the Remove Accents

The Remove Accents tool is a free, browser-based utility that instantly strips diacritical marks (accents, umlauts, tildes, cedillas, and other combining characters) from text, converting accented letters to their plain ASCII equivalents. It processes your input entirely in your browser without uploading data to any server, making it completely private and requiring no sign-up. The tool solves a critical compatibility problem: when text needs to work with systems that don't support special characters, when creating URL-friendly slugs from titles, or when standardizing names and identifiers across databases and platforms.

How Remove Accents works

How the Remove Accents Tool Works

The tool uses Unicode normalization (NFD - Canonical Decomposition) to break down each accented character into two parts: the base letter and its combining diacritical mark. For example, the character "é" is decomposed into "e" + combining acute accent (´). The tool then filters out all combining marks while keeping the base letters, leaving you with clean, plain text.

This happens instantly in your browser using JavaScript, so there is no network request, no server processing, and no data stored anywhere. You can paste text, URL content, or upload a file, and the transformation completes immediately.

Worked Example

Input: "Café résumé naïve Señor über François"

Output: "Cafe resume naive Senor uber Francois"

The tool removes: acute accents (´) from é, grave accents (`) from accented letters, tildes (~) from ñ, diaeresis marks (¨) from ü, and all other diacritical marks, converting each to its base ASCII character.

How to use

  1. Type or paste your text into the input box.
  2. The result updates instantly as you type.
  3. Click Copy to use the output.

Common uses

  • Creating URL-friendly slugs from article titles, product names, or navigation links that contain accented characters
  • Generating standardized filenames for cross-platform file sharing when some users or systems cannot read special characters
  • Preparing data for databases, search indexes, and APIs that require plain ASCII text or have character encoding restrictions
  • Normalizing email addresses, usernames, and identifiers in registration systems where accented input causes validation errors
  • Processing multilingual content for systems that treat 'resume' and 'résumé' or 'cafe' and 'café' as different entries when unified matching is needed
  • Cleaning up imported data, CSV files, or legacy documents that need standardization before integration into modern applications

Frequently asked questions

Is my data safe? Will the text be stored or logged?
Yes, it is completely safe. The tool runs entirely in your browser using client-side JavaScript. Your text never leaves your device and is never sent to any server, stored in logs, or shared with anyone. No registration or login is required.
Which accents and diacritical marks are removed?
The tool removes all combining diacritical marks including acute accents (é), grave accents (è), circumflex (ê), tilde (ñ), diaeresis (ü), cedilla (ç), macron, breve, dot above, ring, and all other Unicode combining characters from Latin-based alphabets.
Does it work with all languages?
Yes, it works with any language that uses Latin-based alphabets with diacritical marks, including French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Polish, Czech, Turkish, Romanian, Vietnamese, and many others. Non-Latin scripts are not modified.
What if I need to keep the accents or undo the conversion?
The tool only removes accents; there is no undo button because your original text is always available in the input field. To preserve your original, copy it before removing accents, or paste it again fresh if needed.
Can I remove accents from a large file?
Yes, you can paste large amounts of text or upload files directly. The tool processes all of it instantly in your browser without size limits or slowdown due to client-side processing.
Why would I need to remove accents from text?
Legacy systems, databases, and APIs often lack proper Unicode support or have strict ASCII-only requirements. Removing accents ensures text compatibility, fixes validation errors, improves cross-platform file sharing, and standardizes search results where accent variations should match the same word.