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Remove Line Breaks
Strip line breaks, extra spaces, and tabs from messy pasted text — keep paragraph breaks if you want them.
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Text copied from a PDF, scanned document, or old email often carries a hard line break at the end of every visual line rather than at the end of each sentence or paragraph — the layout artifact of the original page. This tool strips those out, collapses repeated spaces into single spaces, and converts tabs to spaces, all live as you type or paste. Turn on “Keep paragraph breaks” to preserve the blank lines that separate real paragraphs while still removing the mid-sentence line breaks within each one. Everything runs locally in your browser.
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How to Use
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Paste your messy text into the box.
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Choose which cleanup options to apply — line breaks, paragraph breaks, extra spaces, tabs.
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The cleaned result updates live below.
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Click Copy result to grab the cleaned text.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does "Keep paragraph breaks" actually do?
With it on, blank lines between paragraphs (a double line break) are preserved as a single blank line, while single line breaks within a paragraph — the kind PDFs and scanned documents often insert mid-sentence — are removed and replaced with a space. Turn it off to collapse everything, including paragraph breaks, into one continuous block of text.
Why does pasted text from a PDF have broken line breaks in the first place?
PDFs and some scanned or OCR-extracted documents store text line by line as it was laid out on the page, rather than by actual sentence or paragraph structure. When you copy and paste it, every line of the original layout becomes a hard line break, even mid-sentence — this tool removes those layout artifacts while keeping real paragraph structure.
What counts as an "extra space"?
Any run of two or more consecutive space characters on the same line is collapsed down to a single space, and leading/trailing whitespace on each line is trimmed. This does not affect intentional single spaces between words.
Does this remove tabs too?
Yes, if the "Remove tabs" option is checked — each tab character is converted to a single space before the other cleanup options run, so a line with mixed tabs and spaces still comes out clean.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No. Cleanup happens entirely with JavaScript running in your own browser tab, updating live as you type or paste — nothing is ever sent to a server.