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Free document formatter

Paste messy text — notes, AI chat output, Markdown, exported HTML — and get clean, structured HTML back: headings, lists, and tables restored. Deterministic and verbatim-guaranteed: your words are never rewritten, summarized, or truncated, because no AI touches them.

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No signup. Up to 500,000 characters. Format auto-detected.

How it restores structure

Three deterministic paths, chosen by what you paste — and a self-check that proves nothing was lost.

HTML: cleaned, not mangled
Pasted HTML keeps its structure while scripts, styles, iframes, tracking attributes, and editor junk are stripped — only safe structural tags and attributes survive. Word and Google Docs exports come out readable.
Markdown: standards-based conversion
Markdown is detected by its signals (headings, fences, links, emphasis) and converted with a standards-based engine — raw HTML inside it is escaped, never passed through.
Plain text: the verbatim guarantee
Bullets (•, –, *), numbered lists, headings (short lines, ALL-CAPS, numbered prefixes), and tables (tabs, pipes, or aligned spacing) are rebuilt — then the output is verified character-for-character against your input. If the check ever disagrees, the tool falls back to simple paragraphs rather than dropping a single word.

Why no AI is the feature

Gixo's document import used to run on an AI formatting pass — and we replaced it with this deterministic engine, because the AI version had a failure mode users couldn't see: long documents were silently truncated at the model's token limit, and "reformatting" occasionally meant rewording. A formatter must be a parser, not an author.

This tool is that replacement, exposed for anyone to use. It never calls a model, so there is nothing to hallucinate, no length limit measured in tokens, and no usage meter — the cost of a run is effectively zero, which is why it's free without a signup. The structure-restore path even reports which method produced your output, and tells you when the verbatim check passed.

If what you actually need is the document written — not just formatted — that's Gixo's document workspaces: structured briefs, proposals, reports, and articles generated from your own files.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the document formatter really free?
Yes — no account, no cap. It's a deterministic parser (no AI call), so each run costs effectively nothing to serve.
Will it change my wording?
No. The plain-text path verifies the output character-for-character against your input (everything but punctuation spacing), and falls back to simple paragraphs if the structural heuristics ever disagree. Markdown and HTML paths convert markup only — your sentences pass through untouched.
What can it detect in plain text?
Bulleted lists (•, –, —, *, →), numbered lists (with correct start numbers preserved), headings (short lines without terminal punctuation, ALL-CAPS lines, numbered prefixes like 2.1), and tables separated by tabs, pipes, or two-plus spaces with consistent column counts.
How large a document can I paste?
Up to 500,000 characters — roughly a 70,000–80,000-word manuscript. There is no token-based truncation because no model is involved.
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Headings, lists, and tables restored in one click — and every word exactly where you wrote it.

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