Data Processing

BOM Character Remover

Remove BOM (Byte Order Mark) characters from text and file content. Perfect for cleaning up text files that have encoding issues, fixing CSV imports, and preparing data for processing. Features: - Detect and remove UTF-8 BOM (EF BB BF) - Detect and remove UTF-16 BOM (FE FF or FF FE) - Detect and remove UTF-32 BOM (00 00 FE FF or FF FE 00 00) - Support multiple input formats - Visual BOM character display - Detailed detection report - Support for batch text processing Common Use Cases: - Fix CSV file import errors - Clean up text file encoding issues - Prepare data for JSON parsing - Fix XML parsing problems - Resolve API data encoding conflicts - Standardize text data format

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/data-bom-remover' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"textContent":"Paste your text content here...\nText may include invisible BOM characters at the beginning that cause encoding issues.","detectionMode":"all","showBomChars":true,"outputFormat":"cleaned"}'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/data-bom-remover

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
textContent	textarea	Yes	—
detectionMode	select	Yes	—
showBomChars	checkbox	No	Display detected BOM characters as visible representations
outputFormat	select	Yes	—

Response format

Text result

JSON

{
  "result": "Processed text content",
  "error": "Error message (optional)",
  "message": "Notification message (optional)",
  "metadata": {
    "key": "value"
  }
}

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-data-bom-remover": {
      "name": "data-bom-remover",
      "description": "Remove BOM (Byte Order Mark) characters from text and file content. Perfect for cleaning up text files that have encoding issues, fixing CSV imports, and preparing data for processing.\n\nFeatures:\n- Detect and remove UTF-8 BOM (EF BB BF)\n- Detect and remove UTF-16 BOM (FE FF or FF FE)\n- Detect and remove UTF-32 BOM (00 00 FE FF or FF FE 00 00)\n- Support multiple input formats\n- Visual BOM character display\n- Detailed detection report\n- Support for batch text processing\n\nCommon Use Cases:\n- Fix CSV file import errors\n- Clean up text file encoding issues\n- Prepare data for JSON parsing\n- Fix XML parsing problems\n- Resolve API data encoding conflicts\n- Standardize text data format",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=data-bom-remover",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "data-bom-remover",
    "arguments": {
  "textContent": "Paste your text content here...\nText may include invisible BOM characters at the beginning that cause encoding issues.",
  "detectionMode": "all",
  "showBomChars": true,
  "outputFormat": "cleaned"
}
  }
}

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