Truncate Text Online – Cut Words or Characters Easily

Need to shorten your text without losing clarity? Our truncate text tool helps you remove words or characters from the left or right, ensuring your content stays concise. Whether you're trimming long sentences, processing text line by line, or adding custom truncation indicators like “…”, this tool makes it easy. Just enter your text, set your preferences, and get a perfectly shortened version instantly!

Truncate Text Options
Truncate By
Additional Options
Fake Text Checker Settings Guide

Truncate from Left: Removes content from the beginning of the text, keeping only the last part based on the selected count.

Truncate from Right: Removes content from the end of the text, keeping only the first part based on the selected count.

Words to Keep: Keeps the specified number of words from either the left or right side of the text, depending on the chosen truncation direction.

Characters to Keep: Keeps the specified number of characters from either the left or right side of the text, depending on the chosen truncation direction.

Line-by-Line Truncating: Applies the truncation separately to each line instead of treating the whole input as one block. Useful for structured or multiline input.

Add Truncation Indicator: Appends or prepends a symbol (like "...") to indicate where text has been cut. Placement depends on the truncation side.

Examples of Truncated Text

1. Truncating a Sentence by Characters (Right-Side Cut)

Scenario: You need to shorten a sentence by removing a set number of characters from the end and keep only the first 10 characters of a sentence.

Input: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Option: Truncate from Right, By Characters (10)

Output: The quick

Note: Space is also counte as a character.

2. Truncating a Sentence by Words (Left-Side Cut)

Scenario: You want to remove a certain number of words from the beginning and keep only 3 words at the end.

Input: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Option: Truncate from Left, By Words (3)

Output: lazy dog.

Note: Period (fullstop) is also counted as a word.

3. Line-by-Line Truncating (Right-Side Cut by Characters)

Scenario: You have multiple lines of text and need to truncate each individually by keeping only 4 characters from beginning.

Input:
The quick brown fox
Jumps over the lazy dog
and eats the cherry cake

Option: Truncate from Right, By Characters (5), ✔ Line-by-Line

Output:
The
Jump
and

4. Truncating with a Custom Indicator

Scenario: You want to indicate where text was cut off using an ellipsis (…)

Input: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Option: Truncate from Right, By Characters (13), ✔ Add Truncation Indicator (…)

Output: The quick bro…

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