Copy Fixer, Terminal Text Cleaner

A 10-step pipeline: strips ANSI color codes, resolves carriage return overwrites (progress bars), processes backspace characters, trims trailing whitespace, normalizes tabs to spaces, strips shell prompts, removes quote markers (the ▎ characters Claude uses), removes common leading indentation, converts box-drawing tables to Markdown, and reflows broken paragraphs while preserving diffs and code blocks.

No. All processing happens locally in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing is sent to any server. Your text never leaves your machine.

Yes. The /fix-copy slash command for Claude Code runs the same 10-step pipeline as a Node.js script. Copy text, run /fix-copy, paste clean text. Install it from the GitHub repo — two files, zero dependencies.

All of them. VS Code integrated terminal, iTerm2, Windows Terminal, PowerShell, tmux, Warp, Alacritty, Hyper, the default macOS Terminal — if it outputs text, Copy Fixer cleans it.

ANSI escape codes are invisible sequences that terminals use to control text color, bold, underline, and cursor position. When you copy text from a terminal, these codes come along as garbled characters like [0;36m or [1m. Copy Fixer strips all of them in the first step of its pipeline.

Yes. The reflow engine detects preformatted blocks — diffs, line-numbered code, tool output, and markdown tables — and leaves them untouched. Only prose paragraphs that were broken by terminal wrapping get reflowed.

The /fix-copy slash command for Claude Code is MIT-licensed and available on GitHub. The browser tool on this page uses the same processing pipeline. Both are free to use.