Does this detect smart quotes vs straight quotes?

Yes, it normalizes and checks pairing for both standard straight quotes and typographical curly smart quotes.

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Punctuation Checker

Inspect, count, and validate punctuation marks, unpaired quotes, and spacing errors.

How to Use Punctuation Checker

1Paste your text into the editor.
2Review the error warning flags for unpaired brackets, quotes, or double punctuation.
3Inspect the punctuation frequency distribution table.
4Click 'Auto-Fix Common Errors' to resolve spacing and duplicate marks.

Key Features & Benefits

Pair matching validation for (), [], {}, "", and ''
Double punctuation error detection (e.g. .., ,, ??)
Counts every punctuation mark category (periods, commas, dashes, colons)
One-click formatting cleanup

About Punctuation Checker

Scan text for punctuation anomalies including missing closing quotes, unclosed parentheses, double punctuation marks, irregular ellipsis formatting, and trailing spaces before punctuation.

Unlike traditional web tools that send your personal data, uploaded photos, or sensitive text to remote cloud servers, our Punctuation Checker operates strictly inside your client browser sandbox. This guarantees high processing speeds without network throttling, and ensures your data privacy is completely preserved.

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Punctuation Checker

Inspect, count, and validate punctuation marks, unpaired quotes, and spacing errors.

Punctuation & Spacing Auditor

Scan for missing spaces, spaces before punctuation, double periods, and quote errors.

Punctuation Health

10 Issues

Formatting irregularities flagged below

Total Commas & Periods6

Basic sentence punctuation count

Quote BalanceOdd / Open

Double quote parity audit

Detected Punctuation Anomalies

Space Before Punctuation:Unwanted space before ","Context: "...Hello ,welcome ..."

Flagged

Space Before Punctuation:Unwanted space before "!"Context: "...o ToolsHub !Here you..."

Flagged

Space Before Punctuation:Unwanted space before "."Context: "...generators .Do you l..."

Flagged

Missing Space After Punctuation:Missing space between "," and "w"Context: "...Hello ,welcome t..."

Flagged

Missing Space After Punctuation:Missing space between "!" and "H"Context: "... ToolsHub !Here you ..."

Flagged

Missing Space After Punctuation:Missing space between "," and "p"Context: "... find fast,private t..."

Flagged

Missing Space After Punctuation:Missing space between "," and "c"Context: "...alculators,converter..."

Flagged

Missing Space After Punctuation:Missing space between "." and "D"Context: "...enerators .Do you li..."

Flagged

Double Period:Accidental double period '..' (use single '.' or ellipsis '...')Context: "...vate tools.. We have..."

Flagged

Unmatched Quotes:Odd number of double quotes (1 found). One quote is unclosed.

Flagged

How to Use Punctuation Checker

1Paste your text into the editor.
2Review the error warning flags for unpaired brackets, quotes, or double punctuation.
3Inspect the punctuation frequency distribution table.
4Click 'Auto-Fix Common Errors' to resolve spacing and duplicate marks.

Key Features & Benefits

Pair matching validation for (), [], {}, "", and ''
Double punctuation error detection (e.g. .., ,, ??)
Counts every punctuation mark category (periods, commas, dashes, colons)
One-click formatting cleanup

About Punctuation Checker

Scan text for punctuation anomalies including missing closing quotes, unclosed parentheses, double punctuation marks, irregular ellipsis formatting, and trailing spaces before punctuation.