Getting Started

TextSoap 6 requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later

TextSoap removes extraneous characters, word wraps broken paragraphs, and so forth. There are more than 100 built-in cleaners (filters) available, or you can create your own custom solutions.

TextSoap cleaners automates the processing of text like finding and replacing items, removing unwanted text. It also processes text based on its style. Use it with email, websites, and a whole variety of other text you come across.

TextSoap includes tighter integration with most of your favorite apps through a variety of plugins.

Main Application

The main application works with both the Clipboard contents and text documents. TextSoap also includes Custom Cleaner Editor to create your own cleaners and a Group Editor to help you organize cleaners into collections for your specific tasks or projects.

Text Editing

TextSoap uses the standard Mac OS X text editing environment to provide you with a full featured text editor that can handle both plain text and rich text. If you know how to use TextEdit, Apple's default text editor application, you know the fundamentals of using the TextSoap editor.

Additionally, TextSoap shows you invisible characters in to help you find lurking spaces, tabs, end-of-line markers, and other non-visible characters in your text.

Clipboard Workspace

When you open TextSoap, the Clipboard Text window appears. TextSoap pastes in the contents of the Clipboard into the workspace. Now you can apply any cleaners to the text, or edit the text as needed. When you quit TextSoap, it copies the contents of the Clipboard Text window back to the Clipboard.

Simple Text Cleaning Example

Using TextSoap in a few basic steps:

  1. Open TextSoap application (contents of Clipboard is pasted into Clipboard Text window).
  2. Optionally select text to process (if no selection, then entire text is processed).
  3. Click the "Make Paragraphs" cleaner button in drawer,
  4. Quit TextSoap (copies the text from Clipboard Text window to the Clipboard).

Getting Started Example