How to decode a Quoted-Printable string back to plain text

1. Paste the QP text

   Drop the encoded string into the "Text" field. Anything matching `=XX` (two-digit hex) is treated as one byte; soft line breaks (`=` at end of line followed by CRLF) are removed; everything else passes through as-is.

2. Press Run

   Result returns a single `decoded` field. Examples: `caf=C3=A9` → `café`; `=3D` → `=`; a multi-line input with `=\r\n` soft breaks collapses into a single logical line. UTF-8 decoding happens on the reassembled bytes.

3. Where this comes from

   QP-encoded text shows up in raw email bodies, MIME multipart segments, and email Subject lines wrapped with `=?utf-8?Q?…?=` (RFC 2047). The Subject-line form is similar but uses `_` for space and slightly different rules — this tool is for the body form.

4. When decode fails

   A trailing `=` with no hex digits, or `=XY` where one is non-hex, is left literal in the output rather than thrown. If you see literal `=20`-looking sequences in your decoded result, the source was double-encoded — decode once more to recover the original.