Smart Quotes to Straight Quotes
Convert smart quotes and typographic punctuation into straight ASCII quotes for safer copy/paste into code, JSON, and config files. Runs locally in your browser.
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About this Smart Quotes to Straight Quotes
$Smart Quotes to Straight Quotes replaces curly quotation marks (" ' ) with straight quotes (") and (') so text works reliably in parsers and programming languages.
This is especially useful for text copied from Word, PDFs, or websites where typographic characters can break JSON, JavaScript, or exact string matching.
- Process text data quickly without external tools
- Transform content for development workflows
- Clean and format text for analysis
- Enable Auto to transform as you type
- Upload text files directly from your device
- Download the result when done
FAQ
No. Everything runs locally in your browser. Nothing you paste is sent to a server.
After the page loads once, it will typically keep working offline (unless you hard refresh with no cache).
No. Your input stays in your browser. Only optional preferences like theme or language may be stored.
Any plain text. You can paste text directly into the input box.
Curly quotes are converted to straight quotes. Many implementations also convert typographic dashes (– —) and ellipses (…) to ASCII equivalents.
Many parsers treat curly quotes as different characters, so strings that look correct visually can fail to parse or match.
No. Only typographic punctuation characters are replaced; regular text remains unchanged.