Remove Accents — Strip Diacritics from Text
Remove accents and diacritics from text, replacing with base letters.
How it works
- 1Paste or type your text in the input field
- 2Click "Remove Accents" — processing happens in your browser
- 3Copy the result or download as a text file
What to do next
About Remove Accents
Remove Accents is the kind of utility you bookmark and reach for when you need it. Remove accents and diacritics from text, replacing with base letters. It loads quickly, works on any modern browser, and produces a result you can download or copy in a single click.
Remove Accents sees the most use from support agents standardising replies and marketers polishing product copy, but the design is intentionally generic enough that you do not need a specialist background to get a good result. The defaults aim at the most common case so a first-time user can get the right output without changing any settings.
The right moment to reach for Remove Accents is when you have a focused text processing job that fits inside a browser tab. Open the page, drop in the file or paste your input, choose the options that matter, and the tool returns the result.
The engine behind the page is standard browser APIs. It reads your file in-memory and writes the result back into the browser. For 0 MB and below the work usually completes in seconds; larger files mostly depend on how much spare RAM your device has.
The architecture is local-first by design. Once the page is loaded, you can disconnect from the network and the tool still completes the job. The processing stack — standard browser APIs and the small UI shell wrapping it — ships with the page itself, so the tool keeps working in offline conditions, on a captive-portal Wi-Fi, or behind a corporate proxy that limits what the tab can reach.
Remove Accents is intentionally narrow in what it does, which makes it easy to slot into a longer workflow. Take its output, hand it to whichever next tool fits the job, and Remove Accents stays out of your way until the next time you need it.
The only practical limit is the 0 MB per-file ceiling, which keeps the tool responsive across a wide range of devices. Run the tool ten times in a row, run it ten thousand times — it behaves the same way and produces the same quality of result.
Some notes on the design of Remove Accents. The page is intentionally narrow: one input, the controls relevant to the task, and one output. Adding unrelated features would make the common case slower for the majority of users, so the surface is held to what people actually use.
Output handling is intentionally boring: Remove Accents produces a single output file and triggers your browser's standard "save" behaviour. If you have a default download folder configured, that is where it will land. There is no Favtoo-side history of jobs you have run.
Remove Accents is structured around the idea that a useful tool should be its own page. Open the page, do the work, close the tab — the page is the entire product. There is no onboarding flow because there is nothing to onboard into.
Remove Accents is built around the moment of need: a focused page you open when you have a specific task, complete the task, and close. The catalog contains many adjacent tools so the same model serves the surrounding parts of a typical text processing workflow.
Useful patterns when working with Remove Accents: keep the input file open in another tab so you can compare against the result; give the output file a descriptive name when saving so you can find it later (the default name is sensible but generic); and treat each run as independent — the tool has no concept of "history", which means you cannot accidentally pollute one job with leftovers from another.
When something goes wrong, the cause is usually one of three things: a malformed input, a browser that is out of memory, or a corporate proxy that is interfering with the page's static assets. The first two are easy to diagnose; the third typically requires asking your IT team to allow standard browser APIs to load.
That is essentially everything Remove Accents does and how it does it. Open the tool above, drop in your input, and the work happens in the page. If you find yourself reaching for it often, bookmark the page — it loads quickly on subsequent visits, and your most-recent settings are remembered for the rest of the session.
How it works
- 1Open Remove Accents in your browser. The page loads quickly and the tool is ready to use the moment it becomes interactive.
- 2Select the text file you want to process — drag-and-drop and the file picker both work.
- 3Pick any non-default settings you need. Most users leave the defaults alone for the first run and only revisit if the result needs tuning.
- 4Trigger processing. standard browser APIs reads your input, applies the transformation, and writes the result back into the page.
- 5Save the output when it is ready.
- 6Re-run with different settings as often as you want. Each run produces a fresh output and the original file on disk is never modified.
Common use cases
- Re-case a title from ALL CAPS to Title Case using Remove Accents.
- Convert a column of names into a comma-separated list for a script.
- Encode user input safely before pasting it into HTML.
- Sort a list of items alphabetically before publishing it.
- Find and replace dozens of variants of a phrase in one pass.
- De-duplicate a list of email addresses pulled from a form export.
- Reformat a JSON blob copied from a log into something readable.
- Strip messy formatting out of copy pasted from a PDF.
FAQ
How does it work?
The tool uses Unicode normalization (NFD) to decompose accented characters, then removes the combining diacritical marks.
What characters are affected?
Accented characters like é, ñ, ü, ç, ø are replaced with their base letters: e, n, u, c, o.
Does it work with all languages?
It works with most Latin-based languages including French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and more.
Is this useful for creating URL slugs?
Yes — removing accents is a common step before creating URL-safe slugs from international text.
Is processing done locally?
Yes — your text stays in your browser. No data is uploaded.
Does it affect non-Latin characters?
Characters like Chinese, Japanese, or Arabic remain unchanged. Only Latin diacritics are removed.
How long does Favtoo retain my data after using Remove Accents?
Favtoo keeps no copy of your file because Favtoo never receives your file. Remove Accents runs entirely in your browser, the input is held only in your tab's memory, and closing the tab discards it. There is no opt-in cloud history, no "recent jobs" panel synced to an account, and no server-side retention to configure — the architecture simply has nowhere for your file to be stored.
Is the source for Remove Accents available?
Remove Accents is a static page running an open-source engine in your browser, so a typical corporate firewall does not get in the way as long as it allows JavaScript to load from Favtoo. For teams that need to host it themselves on an internal network, the underlying engine (standard browser APIs) is open-source and can be packaged into a private build with the same behaviour. Reach out via the Contact page if that is something you are exploring.
What does Remove Accents do that command-line tools do not?
Desktop apps usually have more advanced features but require installation, maintenance and (often) a licence. Paid online tools are convenient but route your file through their servers and gate downloads behind accounts. Remove Accents sits in between: free, instant, and private, but intentionally narrow in scope. For one-off jobs and the common text processing operations, it is usually the lowest-friction choice; for highly specialised work, a dedicated app is still the right answer.
What permissions does Remove Accents need to function?
Remove Accents only needs the standard web platform — file picker access for the inputs you choose to load, and optionally clipboard access if you copy the result rather than downloading it. There is no microphone, camera, geolocation or background-permission request, because none of those are needed for the work the tool does.
Is it safe to use Remove Accents on confidential files?
Your file is processed inside your browser by standard browser APIs. The engine reads the file's bytes from your tab's memory, computes the result, and writes the result back into the tab. You can confirm what the page does by opening developer tools and watching the Network tab during a run — the requests you see are for the tool's static assets only.
Is Remove Accents licensed for business use?
Remove Accents can be used for personal and commercial work alike — there is no separate "business" licence to purchase. The output you generate is yours to use however you want, including in client deliverables, internal documents, or commercial products. Favtoo's only ask is fair, individual use; the tool is not designed to be embedded as a backend service or wrapped behind an API for resale.
Are there any usage limits on Remove Accents?
Inputs are capped at 0 MB per file, which keeps memory usage stable across phones, tablets and older laptops. You can run Remove Accents as often as you need; every run produces a full-quality result.