Keyboard Layout Converter
Recover text typed in the wrong layout: AZERTY, QWERTY, QWERTZ, Dvorak, both ways.
This keyboard layout converter recovers text you typed with the wrong layout active, the gibberish you get when your fingers know AZERTY but the system was set to QWERTY. Tell it which layout produced the text and which one you meant, paste, and it remaps every key back: AZERTY, QWERTY, QWERTZ and Dvorak, in any direction. It runs entirely in your browser, so even a mistyped password is safe to paste here. Letters and common punctuation convert cleanly.
100% in your browser. Nothing you type ever leaves this page.
You typed something with the wrong layout active and got gibberish. Paste it, tell the tool which layout produced it and which one your fingers meant, and get your text back.
Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you paste is ever sent anywhere.
Self-test passed: all layouts aligned, round-trip conversion verified on load.
What it actually fixes
Your fingers know one keyboard. The computer in front of you is set to another. You type
a sentence, or worse a password, and out comes Qfh;çdq instead of words. That
gap between the physical keys you pressed and the layout the OS thinks you have is the whole
problem, and it is purely mechanical. Same key positions, different characters mapped to them.
So it reverses cleanly.
Pick what produced the mess and what you meant, paste, done. The classic one: you SSH into a
US server, your laptop is French AZERTY in your head, and every special character lands
somewhere else. Happens to me more often than I'd like to admit on fresh installs where the
console defaults to us.
Where it stops being perfect
Plain letters, digits and the common punctuation convert one to one. Dead keys (that ^ you press before a vowel on AZERTY) and AltGr symbols are multi-key sequences, not single positions, so they can't always map back. Those just pass through untouched rather than guessing wrong. For 95% of mistyped text, that's a non-issue.
And since it's all client-side, pasting a leaked password here is safe in the sense that it never travels. Still, if a password ended up in a server log or a chat because it was typed wrong, treat it as exposed and rotate it. Better paranoid than sorry.
Frequently asked questions
I typed my text with the wrong keyboard layout. Can this recover it?
Yes, that is exactly what it is for. Pick the layout that was active when you typed (the one that produced the gibberish) and the layout your fingers were actually using, and the tool remaps every key position back. It works letter by letter and symbol by symbol, so a whole pasted paragraph comes back readable.
Does it work for passwords typed in the wrong layout?
It can, and it runs entirely in your browser so nothing you paste leaves the page. The usual case: you connect to a server set to US QWERTY, type your password from AZERTY muscle memory, and it is rejected. Paste the gibberish here, convert, and you get back what you actually meant to type. Change the password afterward if it was exposed anywhere.
Why are some accented characters or AltGr symbols not perfect?
Dead keys (the ^ and ¨ on AZERTY) and AltGr combinations like @ or # are produced by key sequences, not single positions, so they cannot always be mapped one to one. Letters, digits and common punctuation convert cleanly, which covers the vast majority of mistyped text. The rest passes through unchanged.
Which layouts are supported?
AZERTY (French), QWERTY (US), QWERTZ (German) and Dvorak, in any direction. The conversion is position-based, so AZERTY to QWERTZ or Dvorak to QWERTY all work the same way.