· 7 minute read
How to remove AI watermarks from your text
What the phrase means once you look at the actual characters, three ways to remove them, and the honest limit of every character cleaner.
Guides
Task pages about the characters that travel with text you paste: what they are, how to get them out, and exactly where cleaning stops.
For deeper explanations of invisible Unicode, text steganography and claims about generated writing, read the Ghostchars blog.
· 5 minute read
Remove em dashes from ChatGPT text (and the characters you cannot see)
Why generated drafts run on em dashes, the exact switch that converts them, and the invisible characters that come along with the paste.
· 3 minute read
Remove soft hyphens in Word
Where U+00AD comes from, how Word reveals and replaces it, and how to inspect pasted text or a .docx without uploading it.
· 4 minute read
Em dashes in Markdown: keep the source ASCII
Why smart punctuation changes Markdown dashes, how to protect code and front matter, and how to keep source files ASCII-only.
· 4 minute read
Find non-breaking spaces in Google Docs
How no-break spaces reach Google Docs and Word, what they disrupt, and how Ghostchars preserves or replaces them.
· 3 minute read
Find hidden characters in VS Code
How VS Code highlights invisible, ambiguous, and non-ASCII characters, plus a regex and whole-file cleanup path.