So now you have footnotes. If you’ve ever pasted a footnote into a plain text file, you’ll know what I’m talking about: the thing break apart. This happens to anyone working on documents with mixed content. You copy a citation from a web page. You copy a formula from a PDF. Suddenly your nicely-formatted document […]
Zero-Width Space Detector | Hidden Unicode Scanner
You’re working with a document that’s a PDF. You copy a headline from the PDF and paste it into your content management system. Onscreen, everything look fine. Later, however, you can’t find this text when you try to search for it. Why? Because there are invisible characters in it. It is invisible to the human […]
Tab Character Counter | Text Tab Scanner
The word jumps over to the left. Lists run together. Paragraph structure evaporate. It’s the bane of every moddern writer: the horizontal tab character. An invisible character sabotages your formatting when you copy text out of a PDF and paste it in. It appear as nothing but acts as if it were a bunch of […]
Control Character Counter | Invisible Text Scanner
Text seems like such a stable surface: a window into what something means. But it’s actualy an unstable thing barely stitched together with unseen glue. Take one paragraph of text on a web page and cut-and-paste it in a spreadsheet. Suddenly your data has spread itself across several rows or won’t import at all. It’s […]