diff --git a/helpers/datatypes/string.go b/helpers/datatypes/string.go
index c0b10fb..52da60b 100644
--- a/helpers/datatypes/string.go
+++ b/helpers/datatypes/string.go
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ package datatypes
 import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
+	"unicode"
 )
 
 var html_regexp = regexp.MustCompile(`<[^>]+>`)
+var ws_regexp = regexp.MustCompile(`\s+`)
 
 func DeleteTags(s string) string {
 	return html_regexp.ReplaceAllString(s, "")
@@ -28,3 +30,16 @@ func SliceJoin[T any](slice []T, join string, f func(T) string) string {
 	}
 	return strings.Join(result, join)
 }
+
+func RemovePunctuation(s string) string {
+	return strings.Map(func(r rune) rune {
+		if unicode.IsPunct(r) {
+			return -1
+		}
+		return r
+	}, s)
+}
+
+func NormalizeWhitespace(s string) string {
+	return strings.TrimSpace(ws_regexp.ReplaceAllString(s, " "))
+}