Remove Extra Spaces
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Clean up messy whitespace: collapse repeated spaces, trim the ends of lines, and remove empty lines — each cleanup individually selectable.
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How to use this tool
- Paste the messy text.
- Tick the cleanups you want: collapse spaces, trim lines, remove or collapse blank lines.
- Click Clean text.
- Copy the tidied result.
About this tool
Text copied from PDFs, emails and websites arrives full of doubled spaces, trailing whitespace and stray blank lines. Rather than one opaque "clean" button, this tool lets you choose exactly which fixes to apply: collapse multiple spaces into one, trim whitespace from line starts/ends, remove blank lines, or collapse multiple blank lines into a single one to keep paragraph breaks. The summary shows how many characters were removed.
Frequently asked questions
- Will paragraph breaks be preserved?
- Yes, if you choose "collapse multiple blank lines" instead of "remove blank lines" — runs of empty lines become exactly one, keeping paragraphs separated.
- Does it remove tabs and non-breaking spaces?
- Yes — the collapse option treats tabs and non-breaking spaces (common in text copied from web pages) as spaces, which fixes most invisible-character problems.
- Why does text copied from a PDF have so many odd spaces?
- PDFs position text visually rather than storing clean paragraphs, so copying reconstructs spacing imperfectly. This cleanup is exactly for that case.
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