diff --git a/da_detector.py b/da_detector.py
index 5ca86e1..a88ecc8 100755
--- a/da_detector.py
+++ b/da_detector.py
@@ -20,24 +20,35 @@ class da_detector:
 			raise ValueError("too few languages specified")
 		self.langs_to_check = ["sk", "en"]
 
-	def rm_interpunction(data):
+	def rm_interpunction(self, data):
 		from string import punctuation
-		for ngram in data:
-			try:
-				ngram = ngram.translate(str.maketrans('', '', punctuation))
-			except Exception as e:
-				raise e
-		return data
-
-	def rm_digits(data):
-		from string import digits
 		try:
-			for ngram in data:
-				ngram = ngram.translate(None, digits)
+			data = data.translate(str.maketrans('', '', punctuation))
 		except Exception as e:
 			raise e
 		return data
 
+	def rm_newlines(self, data):
+		try:
+			data = data.replace('\n', '')
+		except Exception as e:
+			raise e
+		return data
+
+	def rm_digits(self, data):
+		from string import digits
+		try:
+			data = data.translate(str.maketrans('', '', digits))
+		except Exception as e:
+			raise e
+		return data
+
+	def text_clean_up(self, data: str):
+		data = self.rm_interpunction(data)
+		data = self.rm_digits(data)
+		data = self.rm_newlines(data)
+		return data
+
 	def parse_freqs(self, path: str):
 		import json
 
@@ -72,6 +83,11 @@ class da_detector:
 		if (len(text) <= 10):
 			raise ValueError("not doing anything with text shorter than 10 characters")
 
+		try:
+			text = self.text_clean_up(text)
+		except Exception as e:
+			raise e
+
 		t_len = len(text)
 		# list of random n-grams
 		r_ngrams = []