ANSI Escape Remover

What it does

Terminal apps often decorate output with ANSI escape sequences for colors, bold text, cursor movement, progress updates, and clickable links. Those hidden codes can leak into docs, tickets, chats, and prompts when you copy from a terminal UI.

This remover strips common ANSI control families in the browser, including SGR color/style codes, CSI cursor controls, OSC hyperlinks, and string controls used by full-screen terminal interfaces.

Common uses

• Clean text copied from Claude Code or another terminal UI before pasting it into docs, issues, chat, or an LLM prompt.
• Strip color and formatting codes from build logs, test output, stack traces, and command-line examples.
• Use terminal line rewrite normalization when copied progress bars or streaming status lines include carriage returns or backspaces.
• Copy the cleaned output when you need plain text without hidden terminal controls.

Watch outs

• This removes terminal control sequences; it does not interpret a whole terminal screen buffer.
• Line rewrite normalization handles common carriage-return and backspace output, but complex cursor movement can still need manual cleanup.
• Box drawing characters and visible symbols are real text, so they are preserved.
• If the source text already contains no ANSI sequences, the output will match the input apart from optional terminal-control normalization.