Although some of them do this automatically, I thought it's a bit much to pay for such a simple utility that can be done in one line on the CLI.
So here's a shell script that will convert the contents of the clipboard to plain text.
#!/bin/bash # # Convert contents of clipboard to plain text. pbpaste | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -encoding 30 | pbcopy exit 0
If you have the AppleScript script menulet active, you can store the script in /Library/Scripts, and you can select it from the menu. It will run without opening the Terminal, as per this hint.
[crarko adds: This seems to work as described; I had to run the script twice before it did though.]

