Remove Extra Spaces & Line Breaks

Why copied text gets messy

Text copied from PDFs, scanned documents, websites or e-mails often brings formatting junk with it: a line break at the end of every line, double spaces, tab characters and empty lines. Pasting that into a form, a Word document or a chat looks broken and can exceed character limits.

Clean-up options

• Replace multiple spaces with one: fixes double and triple spaces, and tabs.
• Trim line starts and ends: removes stray spaces at the start or end of each line.
• Remove empty lines: collapses gaps between paragraphs.
• Join all lines into one paragraph: the fix for PDF text where every line ends with a break.
• Remove every space and line break: for numbers, codes and IDs copied with spaces, such as account numbers or IFSC codes.

Common situations

• Pasting a paragraph from a PDF into an application form: use “Join all lines”.
• Cleaning a list copied from Excel or a website: use “Trim” and “Remove empty lines”.
• Copying a 12-digit number with spaces into a field that rejects them: use “Remove every space”.

Non-breaking spaces

Web pages often contain invisible non-breaking spaces that look like normal spaces but break searches and form validation. The tool converts them to normal spaces automatically.

Related

Fix capitalisation with the case converter, then check the length with the word counter. Everything runs in your browser.

Quick answers

Will it remove spaces inside words? No, only extra spaces between words, unless you choose to remove every space. Does it keep paragraph breaks? Yes, unless you tick “Join all lines”. Can I undo? Your original text stays in the top box; change the options any time to see a different result. Does it work with Hindi text? Yes, spacing rules work the same way for any language.

Tip: copy the clean text straight away.