Your AI text still carries traces. Find them and remove them all
Hidden characters, ChatGPT link tags, AI-style punctuation and Word metadata. Checked in your browser — your text never leaves this page.
- Checked in your browser
- No sign-up
- Scanning is free for any length
How it works
Paste or upload
Drop in an answer from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot. The scan runs on your device the moment the text appears.
See every trace
Each finding is marked in red right inside your text, with its Unicode code and a one-line reason it gives the text away.
Remove and paste
Invisible characters go free. Pro removes the rest down to zero, re-checks the result and copies it ready for Word, Google Docs or email.
What the scanner looks for
Seventeen groups of traces in text, plus Word metadata in documents. Each one is a real character or fragment we can point to in your text — never a guess about who wrote it.
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Shadow watermarks
ProU+200BEmpty invisible characters with no width that let scanners spot a copied AI answer instantly.
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Script-assembly traces
FreeU+FEFFA system encoding marker in the middle of a phrase shows the text was put together by a script, not written by a person.
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AI clipboard markers
FreeU+200DHidden joiners that travel with text copied from a chatbot window and give away its source.
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Machine spacing matrix
FreeU+00A0Specific indent bytes from the AI training base that physically cannot be entered during ordinary manual typing.
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Direction marks
FreeU+200EText-direction controls in left-to-right text — invisible and easy to detect.
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Hidden Unicode tags
FreeU+E0000Invisible tag characters that can spell out hidden instructions for AI.
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Variation selectors
FreeU+FE0FSelectors outside emoji can carry hidden data in otherwise plain text.
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Hidden layout commands
FreeU+00ADInvisible system hyphens and formatting codes that physically cannot be typed on a keyboard.
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Hidden line breaks
FreeU+2028Unicode line and paragraph separators that editors treat differently.
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Markdown leftovers
Free** ##Asterisks, hash headings and pipe tables are chat formatting, not document formatting.
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Link tracking tags
Proutm_sourceutm_source=chatgpt.com names ChatGPT as the source of the link.
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Citation artifacts
ProoaiciteLeftovers like oaicite and 【4:0†source】 appear only in answers copied from AI.
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LLM syntax signature
ProU+2014A hard join of words with a special character, whose mathematical frequency detectors use to work out the structural handwriting of a language model.
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Training-dataset artifacts
ProU+2015Internal markup codes from AI databases that are absent from the keyboard layout and prove machine output.
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Regional token conflict
ProU+201CThe neural network inserts paired bytes from its base dataset against the language’s norms, leaving a trace of generation that is obvious to scanners.
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Compressed monolithic tokens
ProU+2026The algorithm packs a group of marks into a single Unicode glyph to save tokens, giving away an automatic text dump.
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Unicode spoofing and glyph swaps
ProU+0430A mix of bytes from different language tables inside words triggers instant alarm in verification and anti-spam systems.
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Document metadata
ProdocPropsAuthor, company, app, template and edit history stored inside the Word file.
Before and after
Remote work boosts focus—but only with clear rules. See the “Remote Playbook” :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1} at https://example.com/guide?utm_source=chatgpt.com…
Remote work boosts focus, but only with clear rules. See the “Remote Playbook” at https://example.com/guide...
Plus two invisible characters you cannot see in either version. The scanner shows them as code labels.
Paste it where it needs to go
Markdown from the chat turns into real formatting for the place you paste into.
Word
Headings, lists, tables, bold and links arrive as real Word formatting.
Google Docs
Same structure, tuned for how Docs handles pasted HTML.
Email
Simple formatting that survives Gmail and Outlook, without big headings or tables.
Plain text and Markdown
Clean text with paragraphs and lists kept, or tidy Markdown without hidden characters.
Questions
Does my text get uploaded anywhere?
No. The scan and every fix run in your browser. Our server only receives a number — how many characters you removed for free today — so it can apply the daily limit.
Does ChatGPT put a watermark in text?
OpenAI does not add a hidden watermark as a feature. Copied answers still often carry technical traces: special spaces, utm_source=chatgpt.com in cited links, citation leftovers and typography that differs from your language’s norms.
What is free and what is Pro?
Scanning any amount of text is free. Removing invisible characters and Markdown is free up to 2,500 characters a day. Pro fixes typography, look-alike letters, link tags and citation leftovers, with no limit.
Will this make my text pass an AI detector?
Remove AI Traces removes technical traces. It doesn’t rewrite your text or promise any AI-detector score.
Why are em dashes left alone in my Russian or French text?
In those languages the em dash is standard punctuation. We only fix spacing around it. In English, where a dash between words with no spaces is typical of AI output, you choose what it becomes.