Remove Line Breaks & Extra Spaces

Remove line breaks and extra spaces from text

Text copied from PDFs, emails, scanned documents or web pages often arrives with a hard line break at the end of every line and with stray double spaces. This tool removes them in one step, so you get clean, flowing text.

Choose what happens to line breaks: replace them with a space, remove them completely, replace them with a comma, or keep only the breaks between paragraphs. You can also collapse repeated spaces, trim each line and turn tabs into spaces.

How to use it

1. Paste your text into the left box.
2. Pick what to do with line breaks in the options row.
3. Tick the cleanup options you want: collapse spaces, trim lines, tabs and hyphenated words.
4. Check the summary, then click Copy to take the cleaned text.

Which line break option should I choose?

• Replace with a space suits most copied paragraphs. All lines become one block of text.
• Keep paragraph breaks joins the lines inside each paragraph but leaves blank lines between paragraphs.
• Remove completely joins lines with nothing in between. Use it for codes, numbers or text without spaces.
• Replace with a comma turns a list with one item per line into a comma-separated list.

Common uses

• Students tidy quotes and notes copied from PDF papers.
• Writers and editors fix text that came with broken lines.
• Marketers turn lists into comma-separated values for ad tools and spreadsheets.
• Developers flatten multi-line strings and logs.

Frequently asked questions

Why does text copied from a PDF have so many line breaks?

PDFs store each printed line separately, so copying them keeps a line break at the end of every line. This tool joins those lines back into flowing paragraphs.

What does "Keep paragraph breaks" do?

It joins the lines inside each paragraph into one line, but keeps blank lines between paragraphs, so your text stays organized into paragraphs instead of becoming one long block.

Does it work with Windows, Mac and Linux line endings?

Yes. Windows (CRLF), Linux (LF) and older Mac (CR) line endings are all treated as line breaks.

What about words split with a hyphen at the end of a line?

Turn on "Rejoin words split by a hyphen". A word broken as "exam-" and "ple" on the next line is joined back into "example". Leave it off if your text contains genuine hyphenated words at line ends.

Privacy

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