DEV Community: June Finucane

That AI-Generated Text You Pasted Still Looks Like AI. Here's How to Clean It Up in One Click.

June Finucane — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:10:35 +0000

I use ChatGPT and Claude constantly — for drafting emails, summarizing docs, writing first-pass documentation. And I've noticed a pattern in my own workflow: the AI gives me 90% of what I need, and then I spend ten minutes fixing the last 10%, which is almost always formatting.

You know the symptoms. Em-dashes everywhere. Weird spacing and broken line breaks from copying out of a chat window. Random bold text that makes a paragraph look like a marketing landing page. Lists with inconsistent markers. Sometimes invisible characters or leftover artifacts that make the text render strangely in Notion or Gmail.

For a while I did this cleanup by hand. Then I got tired of it and looked for a tool, which is how I found AITextCleaner. You paste the AI-generated text in, click once, and it strips out the artifacts and fixes the formatting so the result reads like something a human actually typed.

What it handles:

Removes AI artifacts — the stray characters, odd symbols and leftovers that give AI text away
Fixes formatting — normalizes spacing, line breaks, and that chaotic bold/italic styling chatbots love
Restores natural flow — the text stops looking like a chat transcript and starts reading like a document
Works with any major model — output from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all go through the same one-paste process

It's free and runs in the browser, so there's nothing to install and no account to create. Paste, click, copy, done.

To be clear about what it is and isn't: this isn't a "humanizer" trying to trick detectors, and I'm not going to pretend I need that. It's a cleanup tool. My edits and judgment stay in the text; the tool just removes the machine fingerprints and formatting noise so the final document looks professional.

If your daily workflow includes moving AI output into emails, docs, or blog posts, AITextCleaner is worth a bookmark. It's saved me a silly amount of time on what used to be pure busywork.

Stop Uploading Your Photos to Random Websites Just to Resize Them

June Finucane — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:09:34 +0000

Ever needed to quickly compress a screenshot before attaching it to a Jira ticket, or convert a WebP file your design tool spat out into something Word actually accepts? Most of us have, and the usual flow goes: search for "online image compressor", pick one of the first results, and upload your image to some server you know nothing about.

That last step always bothered me. Half the time the image is something mundane — a screenshot, a chart, a photo for a slide deck. But sometimes it's something more personal, like a scan of a document or a photo of your family. And you're trusting an anonymous website to handle it.

That's why I was glad to come across PicShik. It's a free image toolkit that runs entirely in your browser. Nothing gets uploaded to a server — the compression, conversion, resizing and editing all happen locally on your machine, using JavaScript. You can even open your browser's DevTools and watch the network tab: no image data leaves your computer.

The toolset covers the everyday cases:

Compression — shrink PNGs and JPEGs before emailing them or pushing them to a repo
Format conversion — WebP to PNG, PNG to JPEG, and so on
Resizing — get that avatar down to exactly 128×128 without installing GIMP
Quick edits — crop and tweak without opening a heavyweight editor

Because it's browser-based, there's no signup, no trial, and no watermark begging you to upgrade. You open the page, drop your image in, and you're done. It also works fine on slower connections since the page itself is lightweight.

Is it a replacement for Photoshop? Of course not. But for the hundreds of small image tasks that come up during a normal workweek — thumbnails, compressed assets for a web page, format fixes for a client's odd requests — it handles them in seconds, privately.

If you've ever hesitated before clicking "upload" on one of those ad-covered converter sites, give PicShik a try. It's the way online image tools should have worked all along.